The Einstein Syndrome: Bright Children Who Talk Late

Two separate studies of children who are exceptionally bright, and at the same time exceptionally late in beginning to speak, provide the background for this dramatic story of these children and their often anguished parents. In the short time that these children have been studied, examples have turned up all over the world. Numbers of these children have grown into renowned adults: pianists Clara Schumann and Arthur Rubinstein; Julia Robinson, the first female president of the American Mat...