Looks like we are heading down this route with one of our twins. He’s always been obsessed with numbers and letters and recently discovered he can put all numbers and letters in the right order and has memorised some spelling (eg. He has a magnetic whiteboard with magnetic letters and numbers - yesterday I put the digits up1-10 and he spelled all the words next to them). He’s been copying out words for a while but obviously he has memorised some words.
I know that hyperlexia generally means reading / spelling with limited or no understanding. He is autistic and completely non verbal, no attempts at speech at all. They’re 4, by the way. They are both generally delayed across the board other than gross motor so I’m finding it quite incredible that there’s all this information stored in his brain and I have no idea what he knows or doesn’t know. Understanding of spoken words seems to be very limited but impossible to know for sure.
Just wondering if anyone has any experience of helping develop these skills to aid communication / understanding? In a bit of limbo at the moment due to COVID in terms of SALT so any experience / ideas would be greatly appreciated.
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Anyone have experience of hyperlexia?
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SinkGirl · 20/01/2021 13:54
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