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Title: Late-Talking Children by Thomas Sowell ISBN: 0-465-03835-2 Publisher: Basic Books Pub. Date: July, 1998 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.56 (45 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Positive Recommendation: "Late-Talking Children"
Comment: I would recommend other parents of young children with speech problems at least look into this book by Thomas Sowell. The book is not a substitute for accurate medical and speech/hearing diagnosis, in fact Sowell himself has pointed this out in the book and subsequent syndicated columns. The author seeks to assist families of a subset of children with speech and language delays to have hope and realize they are not alone. Our family found "Late-Talking Children" to be very enlightening and ultimately assisted us in seeking the consultation of Stephen Camarata PhD at Vanderbilt University in Nashville TN. The result was that our son progressed more rapidly and with more specific-to-his-needs speech therapy. We are very pleased with the the results! Now, this book may or may not be the answer concerned parents are seeking. But keep an open mind and an open heart when you read this book. In case this book should in fact be helpful to your child and your family's situation, I am pleased to offer this positive review of Thomas Sowell's "Late-Talking Children" for your consideration.
Rating: 4
Summary: The First Book to Address This Issue
Comment: Everyone I know either knows someone who talked late, or was him/herself a late talker, having no other ailments except late talking. I'm surprised someone didn't address this issue sooner. I would give this book four stars for the fact alone that it finally breeched the subject.
My three-year-old does not as yet talk, and this brought me a great deal of concern. As I read this book, I wrote down every similarity between Thomas Sowell's case studies and my own child. It gave me a much more well-defined outline of what my child is going through, being extremely intelligent and developmentally the same as her peers, but having no speech.
This book is not meant to diagnose. It's not even meant to stand as a general rule. What it does is create a basis of reference for parents of children who are clearly not developmentally challenged, but haven't talked yet. I think Mr. Sowell was quite clear in that his research was not concise science, and anyone who read it as such was only hoping to fool him/herself into having greater hope than there is.
Read this book with a grain of salt... though it's a study on late-talking children, it is the first of its kind, and the first attempt to encourage further research. It's a terrific resource, so long as the reader is not blind to a child's actual behavioral symptoms. Let the reader come to this book with his/her child's diagnosis based in reality, and it may prove a very useful tool to understanding the late-talking child.
Rating: 5
Summary: A wonderful book that saved my sanity!
Comment: I understand why some reviewers disliked this book, but as a parent who was starting to freak out, I was thrilled to get it.
I put my son (now almost 6) in speech therapy when, at 1 1/2, he only spoke two words. He had hearing tests, brain scans, everything possible to try to figure out what was wrong, and the speech pathologist determined there was absolutely no reason why he wasn't talking except that he didn't want to. At 2, his nonverbal skills were at a 6 year old level, but verbally he tested at 11 months.
I bought this book when my son was 2 1/2, and it changed every doubt I ever had about myself as a parent. He didn't just have a few similarities; it seemed Dr. Sowell was writing about him exactly. I was (and am) completely convinced the the phenomenon of right-brain dominance exists, although the SLP we were seeing refused to acknowledge it. Two months before my son turned 3, he woke up one morning speaking in sentences and is gifted (as the children in the book were) in music, math, and memory.
Unfortunately, most children will not fit Sowell's pattern, and autism/PDD are realities for many parents. But for those who are at the end of their rope and KNOW their child doesn't fit into any of the labels, this book could change your life.
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Title: The Einstein Syndrome: Bright Children Who Talk Late by Thomas Sowell ISBN: 046508141X Publisher: Basic Books Pub. Date: 24 December, 2002 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: The Late Talker: What to Do If Your Child Isn't Talking Yet by Marilyn C. Agin, Lisa F. Geng, Malcolm Nicholl ISBN: 0312287542 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: 15 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $23.95 |
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Title: Childhood Speech, Language & Listening Problems, 2nd Edition by Patricia McAleer Hamaguchi ISBN: 0471387533 Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Pub. Date: 03 August, 2001 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Does My Child Have a Speech Problem by Katherine L. Martin, Katherine I. Martin ISBN: 1556523157 Publisher: Chicago Review Press Pub. Date: May, 1997 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Beyond Baby Talk: From Sounds to Sentences, A Parent's Complete Guide to Language Development by JULIE PHD MASTERSON, KENN PHD APEL ISBN: 0761526471 Publisher: Prima Lifestyles Pub. Date: 26 June, 2001 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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