title: Hyperlexia in children with autism spectrum disorders.
abstract: We compared the reading-related skills of children with Autism Spectrum Disorders who have hyperlexia (ASD + HPL) with age-matched children with ASD without HPL (ASD - HPL) and with single-word reading-matched typically developing children (TYP). Children with ASD + HPL performed (1) better than did children with ASD - HPL on tasks of single-word reading and pseudoword decoding and (2) equivalently well compared to word-reading-matched TYP children on all reading-related tasks except reading comprehension. It appears that the general underlying model of single-word reading is the same in principle for "typical" and hyperlexic reading. Yet, the study revealed some dissimilarities between these two types of reading when more fine-grained cognitive and linguistic abilities were considered; these dissimilarities warrant further investigations.
authors.affiliation: PACE Center, New Haven, CT 06511, USA.
authors.forename: Tina M
authors.initials: TM
authors.lastname: Newman
authors.forename: Donna
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Macomber
authors.forename: Adam J
authors.initials: AJ
authors.lastname: Naples
authors.forename: Tammy
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Babitz
authors.forename: Fred
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Volkmar
authors.forename: Elena L
authors.initials: EL
authors.lastname: Grigorenko
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D001076:Aptitude; D001321:Autistic Disorder / Q000175:diagnosis*; D001364:Awareness; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D032882:Comprehension; D004522:Educational Status; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007360:Intelligence; D008297:Male; D009483:Neuropsychological Tests; D010700:Phonetics; D011932:Reading; D012016:Reference Values; D012660:Semantics