Late-Talking Children
by Thomas Sowell
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Author: Thomas SowellEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1998-07-03
ISBN: 0465038352
Number of pages: 192
Publisher: Basic Books
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Book Review: Terrific read and highly recommended
Summary: 5 Stars
I have read and reread Mr. Sowell's book and found it to be facinatinating, disturbing, comforting and most of all worthy of serious consideration by the medical establishment. My son who is a little over two and a half sounds almost exactly like some of the children in his book. While it is true the book is more anacdotal in it's approach it ( which he freely admits through out the book ) The case he builds for further study is overwhelming and just based on what I've discovered myself by talking to friends and family this sort of a-typical development is probably much more common then anyone in the "so-called" professional community is willing to admit. I recently had my son evaluated by an SLP.The result of her rather feeble eval, in my opininion, was that my son shows classic PDD (purvasive developmental DISORDER as she called it vs. DELAY ) symptoms. Fortunately, I had read Mr. Sowell's book and was skeptical at the same time not totally discounting her observations. I mentioned this book and she had said she had never heard of it. I was somewhat surprised considering the outrageous smear campaign ASHA has led against it. We have since had him reevaluated and the new SLP was much more open to this possibility while saying further evals were needed by a Nuerologist, Psychologist, team which is already scheduled and something I wanted to have done anyway. But anyone who is interested in the enigma of the late speaking child should read this book! Also, this is the only book I've found that offers a ray of hope for anyone in this sort of situation, the other "Speech,Language and Hearing problems : what every parent should know" by Hamaguchi reads more like ASHA propaganda but at the same time is useful to deciphering SLP speak. But if you read that one and before Mr. Sowell's your heading for a major bout of depression!
Mr. Sowell as it turns out seems to share my exact same political and cultural attitudes to today's society much to my surprise! Coincidence, probably not.I need to read more from this amazing forward thinker! If you read this review Mr. Sowell thanks and I'll help carry this torch you've lit!
Summary of Late-Talking Children
The painful and baffling mystery as to why some obviously bright children do not begin talking until long after the ?normal? time is explored in this book through personal experiences and the findings of scientific research. The author?s own experiences as the father of such a child led to the formation of a goup of more than fifty sets of parents of similar children. The anguish and frustration of these prents as they try to cope with children who do not talk and institutions that do not understand them is a remarkable and moving human story. Fortunately, some of these children turn out to have not only normal intelligence but even outstanding abilities, especially in highly analytical fields such as mathematics and computers. These fascinating stories of late-talking children and the remarkable families from which they come are followed by explorations of scientific research that throw light on unusual development patterns.
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