Einstein syndrome
Einstein syndrome is a term coined by the economist Thomas Sowell to describe exceptionally bright people who experience a delay in development of speech.[1] Commonalities include usually being boys, delayed speech development, highly educated parents, musically gifted families, puzzle-solving abilities, and lagging social development.[2] Einstein syndrome can often be misdiagnosed as autism. Many of these high achieving late-talkers were notoriously strong willed and noncompliant as children.[3] One major difference between Einstein syndrome and autism is that in Einstein syndrome, communication skills automatically reach a normal level and the child requires no further special treatment.[4][5] Outlook with or without intervention is generally favorable.[6]
Darold Treffert has recommended that late-talking children need careful professional evaluation to differentiate between the characteristics of Einstein syndrome and autism.[7][8]
Sowell claimed late talkers are often inaccurately categorized as having an autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and that a small subset of late talkers are actually highly intelligent children with common characteristics concentrated in music and/or memory and/or math and/or the sciences.[2]
Einstein syndrome is named after Albert Einstein whom Sowell used as his primary example.[9] Sowell also included Edward Teller,[9] Srinivasa Ramanujan,[9] the mathematician Julia Robinson,[10] Richard Feynman,[9][10] and the pianists Clara Schumann and Arthur Rubinstein to be in this group.[9]
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- ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 9.3 9.4 Thomas Sowell, Ten Years Later. Capitalism Magazine, 24th 05 2003.
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