Hyperlexia and Comprehension
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Steve D.
It has been stated that hyperlexic kids often have tremendous difficulty with reading comprehension once their peers catch up to their reading level and academic expectations tighten up. An SLT who worked very well with Jason and really helped him a lot 'warned' us of this. I recently recall Ms. Clark alluding to this with one of her kids as well ...
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Combating Hyperlexia
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Bev
Like a certain percentage of autistic kids, I learned to read well before kindergarten. I was around three, and of course I had a particular book I liked and insisted on hearing every night and it happened also to be a book about a piglet who insisted upon the same food over and over again. Donuts were the culprit in Betty Engebretson'sWhat Happene ...
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How my eyes were opened.
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mommy~dearest
... group, and did not like to follow direction. They too were concerned with his language development. I took him to see the district speech therapist, who diagnosed him with Hyperlexia. He did not begin therapy because she too, felt that he was still too young for concern. I researched Hyperlexia, and it fit like a glove. As time went on, the d ...
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Somewhere Over the Spectrum
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mommy~dearest
... g sight-words. His lack of speech dwelling in the back of my mind, I decided to take him to a speech therapist "just to make sure". After a few evals, the therapist noted his Hyperlexia, and said that there was probably nothing to worry about, but to bring him back in a year if he hadn't caught up to his peers. To make a long story short, after re ...
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New literary journal celebrates autism
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Jonathan Mitchel
Well here is an interesting new literary journal I happened across http://www.hyperlexiajournal.com/ This is a new literary journal that will start publication in October that is set up specifically to Celebrate autism. So we have that woman (I don't re ...
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Harnessing Happiness
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Heather ..
... s teacher to discuss the items that he will need to work on over the summer in order to avoid slipping back. He is doing remarkably well in the area of literacy (bordering on hyperlexia, an autistic feature) and number awareness. His fine motor skills are significantly delayed, so that's where we'll spend the bulk of our time. He continues to make ...
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Puzzles, conundrums and other cross words
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Maddy M.
... what dear?” “What he is be meaning?” “What does who mean dear?” “Dah orange?” “Oh, I have absolutely no idea what he….er…it means.” This is one of the many penalties of hyperlexia, the ability to read above one’s chronological age. “He is ‘street’ he is garbage?” “Your guess is as good as mine dear.” Probably far better. I try and think a ...
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Feral child for sale.
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mommy~dearest1 Comment
... Crap- it might give her a heart attack to know I cross my sevens! I brought it to her attention once, that Jaysen learned to write very early (at 2 and a half), due to the Hyperlexia, and that is how he has always made those numbers. She never gave a response, so I assumed she understood that is his preference to make the numbers that way. Nop ...
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What- no cotton candy?!?
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mommy~dearest
... gry alien-wombat. Okay, the truth is... I really haven’t done much in the way of arranging my home physically, to enhance Jaysen’s development. ~ When he was younger, and his hyperlexia was in full force, I would write notes and label things to help him understand what was expected of him. ~ When he was around 4-5 years old, I had to put deadbolt l ...
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Clash of the Titans
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Maddy M.
... e. Junior has a ‘thing’ about "death," dying and all other related aspects of ‘terminal,’ a word that he can read, write and spell accurately. [translation = an offshoot of hyperlexia] His brother also has a ‘thing’ about "death" but different triggers. For reasons too humbling to go into, his current understanding, is that death occurs after th ...
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