About the Author

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    Thomas Armstrong, Ph.D. is the author of fourteen books including the forthcoming Neurodiversity: Discovering the Extraordinary Gifts of Autism, ADHD, Dyslexia, and Other Brain Differences. His other books include: In Their Own Way, 7 Kinds of Smart, Awakening Your Child's Natural Genius, Multiple Intelligences in the Classroom, The Myth of the A.D.D. Child, and The Radiant Child. His books have been translated into 25 languages including Spanish, Hebrew, Chinese, Danish, and Russian. He has taught at several San Francisco Bay Area graduate schools including the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology, and the California Institute of Integral Studies. He has written for Ladies Home Journal, Family Circle, Parenting (where he was a regularly featured columnist), The Journal of Transpersonal Psychology, and many other journals and periodicals. He has appeared on The Today Show, CBS This Morning, CNN, the BBC, and The Voice of America. Articles featuring his work have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, USA Today, Investor's Business Daily, Good Housekeeping, Redbook, and hundreds of other magazines and newspapers. He has given over 800 keynotes, workshops, and lectures in 42 states and 16 countries. His clients have included Sesame Street, the Bureau of Indian Affairs, the Republic of Singapore, Hasbro Toys, and the European Council of International Schools. He is currently working on a novel about the disappearance of childhood. For more information about his work, go to www.thomasarmstrong.com.
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01/05/2010

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Larry

Bruno Bettelheim proposed the hypothesis that precociousness at birth magnified the birth trauma, and trauma in infancy makes a child predisposed to autism. If Bettelheim was right, it would perfectly explain the prevalence of autism in clusters of gifted people--people who were born with their eyes wide open.

Anyway, the most successful expert on autism right now just happens to be Dr. Stanley Greenspan, the psychoanalyst who founded "Floor Time." His treatment nearly duplicates Bettelheim's Orthogenic school. Floor Time is good preventative measure if one's newborn props himself up on his elbows, looks around and smiles at the doctor.

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