Is this normal for asd?!

[samira837]

Hi my ds is 4 years old he just started to talk not long ago. Just don't know if this is a asd thing but he have memorised over 30 long and short words so when I wright it down or he see it he will tell me what it is?!! Should he be doing this?! My other ds who is 3 have been diagnost with glut 1 and must now test my older ds doctor told me that there is a link between this 2 things ( autism and Glut 1)but that glut 1 is so rare ( Round 500 kids in the world) that normaly not a lot off doctors knows about it!!!!!!

Children with ASD do quite often learn to read by whole word recognition rather than phonics if that is what you are asking.

If he is obsessed with letters and words google hyperlexia, that might help.

My DS2 with ASD was a quick reader, but my DS3 who is merely quirky, was amazing! He seemed to teach himself to read. The trouble with hyperlexia is that schools don't always understand that even if a DC can read fluently, they may still have very poor understanding of the text. But, it's a very useful skill and will surely help him to learn and communicate, so not all bad.

Don't know anything about glut 1. Hope it's not too serious a condition.

I agree with ellen, my Dd3 is a fluent reader who can use expression but if she goes wring she rarely notices and she really struggles with more complex comprehension. Although she was effectively taught to find the answers in the text for KeyStage 1 sats.

Unfortunately this inflated her scores and now she is struggling to meet her literacy targets.

Dd (5, autism & severe s&l delay) does this as well. her visual memory is very good. I think this is not uncommon with asd.

sorry, have never heard of glut1.

Ineedmore my dd2 is very similar.

She reads well but struggles hugely to understand the meaning. KS2 literacy is now quite a problem.

I had to laugh today... dd2 is starting a structured literary booster programme with 3 other children. I already knew about this but the letter from school informing me arrived today and was on view in the kitchen.

dd2 noticed a letter from school, wanted to read it but I had to snatch it away and pretend she is starting in an exclusive club paraphrase, because whereas a tale about a woman who used to live in America and came to England and bought a pet shop and started a pet-finding agency and took her dog to dog-training class (ch.1 of the book dd2 brought home tonight) was really a mamouth task involving about ten pages over an hour with explanations/repetitions +++ of key elements and vocab... I knew she would understand 'your child X would benefit from extra support in literacy"!!!!

Oh the irony!

My speech delayed three year old (possibly ASD) recognises words as well. I nearly fell off my chair when she spelled out her name a few months ago. Hyperlexia can be an aspect of ASD or a standalone condition. Children with the standalone type often speak late and have delayed social development, but then catch up when the speech delay resolves. It can present like ASD, but isn't. They don't necessarily need to be able to recognise words, or read fluently, it can present as an obsession with text and numbers. We get told off for encouraging DD as apparently helping her read is hindering her social development, but she enjoys it so much, we just ignore the unhelpful TAs who insist on treating DD like she is Helen Keller

ha ha MummytoMog!