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Type of bind: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 649
EAN num: 9780465081417
ISBN number: 046508141X
Label: Basic Books
Manufacturer: Basic Books
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 256
Printing Date: 2002-12
Publishing house: Basic Books
Release Date: December 24, 2002
Sale Popularity Level: 38349
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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 very 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 very 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.
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I bought this book with several books about autism spectrum after my son was announced to be on autism spectrum because he started talking at 2 and 7 month. I read all the books and found this book helped me most. My son's doctors saw my child as a speech-delayed child who refused to cooperate on any task. They ignored that he is in a bilingual environment, he loves reading and he picked up those 20 words in 2 months without any therapy. As a late talker myself, I know it is not right to label a child with autism just because he is late talking. I started talking at the same age as my son, and quickly picked up. By 4 I was talking no stop. My family background fits the profile perfectly. My parents are engineer and teacher. Both I and my spouse are scientists and play music instruments. My son is extremely strong will and has excellent memory. Now he is surprising me everyday with new words. He is still behind but he has an amazing learning speed, thank for his good memory.
I give this book four start, because parents with real autism child may use this book to put themselves into denial. I suggest parents buy this book also do research on autism before switching the autism label with the Einstein syndrome.
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This book offers interesting observations about a system that is increasingly quick (too quick) to diagnose children autism. While more is known about autism today, this use of the "autism spectrum" has obvious risks - Namely, if you make a spectrum wide enough, you can put anyone on it.
Our three year old daughter, a late talker with speech difficulties, has been diagnosed with autism - yet she exhibits a number of atypical behaviors for an autistic child. She is affectionate, funny and makes pretty good eye contact. She doesn't obsess over things either.
Several professionals have told us that she is smart - quick to solve difficult puzzles, good at following directions, and on target for motor skills.
Two psychologists have expressed doubt about the autism diagnosis after spending a lot of time with her. We now doubt that this is autism as well.
But as this book points out, when you are a hammer, everything looks like a nail. And that is what so many doctors, psychiatrists and other professionals are doing with the autism spectrum - They toss every kid on the spectrum. If your kid has autism, accept it. But be open to other possibilities - namely that your kid is a late talker. Its hard to know what to do - even with helpful books like this one.
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I found the subject of late talking children very interesting and intriging. I have a 21 month old grandson who has not begun to talk at all....not even Mama, DaDa, Bye Bye. He constantly babbles. He has been checked for hearing as well as an overall analysis of his motor skills, social interests, etc., and has come out with an above average rate. We are just interested in how he progresses over the subsequent year or so to see if he has above intelligence. He enjoys working on puzzles that are for 3 or 4 year children; not always completing them, but enjoys the challenge until he gets too frustrated.
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The content is excellent; a valuable book devoted to a neglected subject. Unfortunately, the print quality was terrible. Even though I returned the very first book that I received, the replacement was the same, numerous pages where the outer inch of printing was blurred, and for all practical purposes, unreadable. Very disappointing for a product from Amazon! Even though I advised Amazon of the nature of the problem on the very first book, they didn't bother to check the replacement book.
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A FANTASTIC read... The "twist" is that it bases the core reason for late talking on heredity ~ specifically tying in close family members with analytically-thinking/based careers and abilities (engineers, scientists, mathematicians, pilots, musicians, etc.) I didn't know this when I purchased the book and wanted to share that specifically. We got a lot from the book because our daughter falls into that category (otherwise the book may not have been as useful to us). "The Einstein Syndrome" provides great insight on "why", what can be done in the meantime and on "early intervention". If you have a late-talking child, as well as analytical minds in the family, this book definitely provides answers. **Also recommended for speech therapists/pathologists who aren't familiar with these recent, brilliant findings.
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