The Einstein Syndrome: Bright Children Who Talk Late
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The Einstein Syndrome is a follow-up to Late-Talking Children, which established Thomas Sowell as a leading spokesman on the subject. While many children who talk late suffer from developmental disorders or autism, there is a certain well-defined group who are developmentally normal or even quite bright, yet who may go past their fourth birthday before beginning to talk. These children are often misdiagnosed as autistic or retarded, a mistake that is doubly hard on parents who must first worry about their apparently handicapped children and then must see them lumped into special classes and therapy groups where all the other children are clearly very different.
Since he first became involved in this issue in the mid-1990s, Sowell has joined with Stephen Camarata of Vanderbilt University, who has conducted a much broader, more rigorous study of this phenomenon than the anecdotes reported in Late-Talking Children. Sowell can now identify a particular syndrome, a cluster of common symptoms and family characteristics, that differentiates these late-talking children from others; relate this syndrome to other syndromes; speculate about its causes; and describe how children with this syndrome are likely to develop.
DESCRIPTION:
Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 155
EAN: 9780465081417
ISBN: 046508141X
Label: Basic Books
Manufacturer: Basic Books
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 256
Publication Date: 2002-12
Publisher: Basic Books
Release Date: 2002-12-24
Studio: Basic Books
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Summary: Excellent information for parents with a child who isn't talking
Comment: This book is full of real life experience information. Professionals might not like it, since it tells you that some of them aren't very good at what they do, and advises you to keep looking until you find the right doctor or therapist.
While it focuses on a specific sub group of children who are completely developmentally normal except for expressive language, the information and anecdotes are a good education for any parent with a child that has development issues.
It is also well written and very easy to read. Those familiar with Thomas Sowell's political and economic writings will find the same readable style here.
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Summary: Fantastic book I highly recommend
Comment: I personally thought this was a fantastic read. A little history; my son was a late talker. Couldn't string two words together until 4 1/2 years. Was at the 1% for speech. His IQ was around a full scale of 65. That's around the retarded range.
This book at the time was one of the only books available on this subject and it gave me a ray of hope. I always knew he was smart, he was building robots at five, but the teachers thought I built them. Well, as you can imagine it's difficult to convince people of your childs intelligence if he can't string a sentence together. He was by the way diagnosed autistic, add, then pervasive developmental disorder not otherwise specified.
Well, anyhow a fantastic read which I hope causes further research in this arena. My other recommends are Upside down Brilllance, and Left brained in a Right brain world by jeffrey Freed. My other favorite is How the brain learns by Sousa.
My son is currently 10 by the way, his father is a pilot (consistent for this book). He is gifted in math and performs very well on visual spatial tasks. He talks like a normal kid now and loves science. Parents trust your insticts with your kids. My son is a wonderful, social, intelligent boy. Your story may not end like mine, but perhaps there's something to the self-fulfilling prophesy. I always expected he'd get better and he did. THe schools wrote him off as soon as they saw his IQ and that he couldn't talk. But, what can I say how well would you score on a french IQ test if you didn't speak french? His IQ in math subtests) has jumped over fifty points between 5 and ten.
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Summary: Excellent presentation of bright children that talk late w/o any "problems"
Comment: I requested this book for Christmas to allay the concerns of others for my firstborn child. At the time, my son was 26 months old. He had a spoken vocabulary of fewer than 10 words, but he understood what we were saying, could obviously hear, was obviously bright in other areas, etc. So, my husband and I were unworried, but others were not. So we bought this book, which presents the message that some perfectly normal children just talk later and there's no need to worry if they're otherwise normal. It even allayed the concerns of the most concerned family member of all after she read the book before wrapping it for my present!
This book does NOT say that no parent should worry if their child is late talking. The author points out that there are many different reasons children might talk late, but his purpose is presenting what he calls the Einstein Syndrome, bright children that are late-talkers and will talk in their own time. Much of the information contained in it is based on the results of a study of 235 families with bright but late-talking children conducted by Professor Stephen M. Camarta of Vanderbilt University. This book is well-written and easy to follow. Information, including analysis of the study results, is clearly presented. There were many characteristics these bright, but late-talking children had in common with much greater frequency than the general population. My son fit this profile almost perfectly, including having a father and all three uncles working as engineers, and a mother that is gifted in math.
That late-talker of mine is now 7 ½ and very normal for his age. He is reading on a 4th-5th grade level and talking up a storm. As a mother now of five children, with friends that also have young children, I understand much better now how far my son deviated from the 50th percentile in language development, but I also understand much better how broad the range of "normal" is. Parents of late-talking, but otherwise normal children (i.e. good comprehension and hearing), should find this book very reassuring both for themselves and for concerned family and friends. I highly recommend this book.
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Summary: The Einstein Syndrome
Comment: This was a very interesting and informative book. It gave me, my daughter and son in law hope in that their son is a late talker. So many of the things mentioned in this book fit him to a T.
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Summary: Extremely Helpful
Comment: At 14 months old, and after having played with an electric toy for 2 weeks, my son figured out on his own the entire alphabet, shapes, and numbers 1-10. He was fascinated with books and taught himself to read. He was reading before turning 2, and at 2 years old, he was reading hundreds of words. Now at three, he can read thousands of words. He is amazing with puzzles, and according to his teacher, builds incredibly creative and interesting things with toys like blocks or legos. He is very loving and loves to be cuddled and kissed. While he understands everything we say, he does not want to talk much, and only talks when he wants something. There were suggestions from his preschool of autism because of his speech delay. This has brought my husband and myself a great deal of anguish.
We saw a specialist who considered him gifted and suggested that we look into the development of Eistein as a young boy. Also, she said gifted children tend to develop unevenly.
This book has really been very helpful and reassuring to us. Now, instead of being anxious about his speech, we celebrate his other gifts and seek to nurture his interests and talents. Because of the shift in our perception, our son is happier and is seems to be thriving.
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