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Any advise on hyperlexia?

camden

My son of five appears to have hyperlexia (but no functional language!) and I'm not sure if that's a splinter skill or if he actually just hyperlexic.  He recently made the computer his new best friend and spends long periods of time typing words, some he understands and others he seems to retain as info.

He spells words and types the letters of the alphabet forwards and backwards and at the moment can spell and read well over a hundred words.  He appears to like rather long word (for his age) between 6 to 10 letters long and is completely self motivated. 

How can I stretch this talent and get him to read without pressuring him? Also an advise on experience with hyperlexia would be great. Thanks :)

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  • IntenseWorld

    That's my son exactly! He spells the names of authors, words on posters or from books and I'm not sure if he is decoding the words or is this more of a visual memory.  From your experience and your observation of your children, which do you think it is? I ask this as I teach my son objects, people etc through the use of the written words.  I'm trying to figure out if I should teach him how to keep reading in phonetically or should I just give the whole words and he will just retain them as they are?

    Thank you once again for your response...I dont come by direct answers as I do on here...usually me reading endless articles online and then swimming in my own head with all of it :)

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  • IntenseWorld

    That's my son exactly! He spells the names of authors, words on posters or from books and I'm not sure if he is decoding the words or is this more of a visual memory.  From your experience and your observation of your children, which do you think it is? I ask this as I teach my son objects, people etc through the use of the written words.  I'm trying to figure out if I should teach him how to keep reading in phonetically or should I just give the whole words and he will just retain them as they are?

    Thank you once again for your response...I dont come by direct answers as I do on here...usually me reading endless articles online and then swimming in my own head with all of it :)

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