Late-Talking Children, revised and expanded edition

A revised and expanded edition of the bestselling guide to late-talking children for parents, clinicians, and educators, from a leading authority on development and disabilities.

Every year in America, more than half a million parents of late-talking children face agonizing questions: What should I do if my two- or even three-year-old has not yet begun to talk? Should I worry that my child is autistic or intellectually disabled? Are expensive therapies or medications needed? Will my child ever speak normally? In this revised and expanded edition of the essential resource on the subject, Late-Talking Children, Stephen Camarata—the parent of a late-talking child and a late talker himself—provides clear, sensible, and compassionate answers for parents, clinicians, and educators, drawing on his more than three decades of experience diagnosing and treating the “late-talking syndrome” as well as the best science available today.Table of Contents
1. A Symptom or a Stage?
2. What Do We Know about Late-Talking Children?
3. Late Talking and Autism
4. Lessons from Autism: Charlatans, “Causes,” and “Cures”
5. When Late Talking is a Symptom: Developmental Language Delay, Intellectual Disability, and Speech Disorder
6. When Late Talking is a Stage: The Einstein Syndrome
7. Taking the Long View: Late Talking Children in Middle School, High School and Beyond
8. Diagnosis and Dangers: Accuracy Matters
9. Childhood Services and Treatment
10. Services: The Law versus the Practice
11. Navigating Schools: Education
12. An Overview: Putting It All Together
Notes
Index“In Late-Talking Children, the world's expert on the syndrome offers good sense, humane advice, and the latest science to parents—while reminding his fellow scientists that it raises fascinating questions for our understanding of language, genetics, development, and the organization of the human brain.”
—Steven Pinker, Johnstone Professor of Psychology, Harvard University; author of The Language Instinct and How the Mind Works

“Professor Stephen Camarata’s new book will be a revelation and a treasure to anxious and puzzled parents of late-talking children. It should also be read by professionals who treat—and sometimes mistreat—late-talking children, as well as by those who set educational and medical policies.”
—Thomas Sowell, Hoover Institution, Stanford UniversityStephen M. Camarata is Professor in the Department of Hearing and Speech Sciences at Vanderbilt School of Medicine. He is the author of the first edition of Late-Talking Children (MIT Press) and The Intuitive Parent. He has a regular blog on Psychology Today and has served as a panel member on the US National Academy of Science, Medicine, and Engineering and at the National Institutes of Health.