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  • Title: Hyperlexia in children with autism spectrum disorders.
    Author: Newman TM, Macomber D, Naples AJ, Babitz T, Volkmar F, Grigorenko EL.
    Journal: J Autism Dev Disord; 2007 Apr; 37(4):760-74. PubMed ID: 17048093.
    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.
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