The Einstein Syndrome

Bright Children Who Talk Late

By: Thomas Sowell

Narrated by: Bill Andrew Quinn

The Einstein Syndrome is a follow-up to Late-Talking Children, which established Thomas Sowell as a leading spokesman on the subject of late-talking children. 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 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-90s, 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.

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Child learning info

This is a very knowledgeable and very easy to understand and informative thread on how early child learning is easily misunderstood and misunderstood!

Interesting and deeply personal book by Sowell

Interesting and deeply personal book by Sowell. The data deserves serious consideration. Parents will find the book to be an invaluable resource.

Explains my children so much!

My children are very bright but were slower in the milestones compared to their peers. Many professionals want to say they are autistic. even though I believe in Autism I don't believe they are. Unfortunately we don't have many support when you don't want them on the spectrum but now with this book it helps me understand that I'm not in denial or crazy. Thank you Thomas Sowell!!

The only review I needed to make

I am a very busy mother and professional person so you can imagine that I rarely have time to write review. However with this book and the Camarata book was the only light and hope in my life that my 3 years old son will speak at one point. He has a lot of qualities that he spoke about in this book.

Thank you for providing a very thorough and scientific book like this one that is very precious to parents like me.

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Y&D

Dr sowell is an American legend

this is great book that hits home deeply. wonderful information and great presentation. highly recommended.