Parents naturally think they are at fault when their children are affected by these devastating conditions. But scientist and researcher Keith Glegg, in a remarkable analysis, says they aren’t responsible! Glegg, a physicist and former vice president of the National Research Council of Canada, has studied evolution, play, language, sleep, biology, neurobiology and philosophy, merging findings from all.

Invite him on your show to explain why:

• SIDS (that strikes infants only when they are sleeping) results from an unusual combination of factors including sleep, lack of oxygen and heredity.

• Schizophrenia originated long ago as a hereditary disease that strikes people aged 16 to 25.

• Autism is due to a brain accident in early childhood.

He can also explain why:

• Pet dogs play and understand people while pet lizards don’t.

• Play has a critical evolutionary function for animals and humans.

• Carnivorous animals like cats don’t usually eat their young.

• The human capacity for storytelling is a key evolutionary development.

CREDENTIALS: Keith Glegg is the author of THE EVOLUTIONARY ORIGIN OF HUMAN BEHAVIOR: How Play and Evolution Carried Us from Our Reptile Predecessors to the Storytellers We Are (iUniverse, 2009). An award-winning aerospace engineer and holder of numerous patents, he was instrumental in designing the Doppler Navigator for aircraft.

AVAILABILITY: Ontario, Canada by arrangement and via telephone

CONTACT: Keith Glegg, (613) 632-6438; gleggkcm@msn.com; http://childrenofplay.com