Late talking -- is it a thing?

The Einstein Syndrome
Bright Children Who Talk Late
Thomas Sowell

People knocked this book because it did exactly what it set out to do--tell stories. Story after story after enough already story, of children who were unable or unwilling to talk until they were well past the age of concern. Most of the children seemed to be about three years old when their lack of talking worried parents so much that they showed up in his research, conducted very, very informally on people he found by word of mouth, best I could tell.

But he never said this was science, and even though he draws a lot of "conclusions" (aka associations) about the factors that seemed to precipitate the syndrome, you wouldn't dare to call it science.

People didn't like that he did what he said--told stories, drew a few associations, and left it as an interesting phenomenon that ought to be studied someday.

I liked it, though. Other than the tedium of reading the same story over and over again. I liked that it reminded me that people are different from each other and children even more so.