Hyperlexia in children with autism spectrum disorders.
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.
Newman
Tina M
TM
PACE Center, New Haven, CT 06511, USA.
Macomber
Donna
D
Naples
Adam J
AJ
Babitz
Tammy
T
Volkmar
Fred
F
Grigorenko
Elena L
EL
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