![]() ![]() ![]() They are extremely good at decoding language and thus often become very early readers. Hyperlexic children are often fascinated by letters or numbers. Between five and twenty percent of autistic children have been estimated to be hyperlexic. However, one expert, Darold Treffert, proposes that hyperlexia has subtypes, only some of which overlap with autism. Some experts believe that most children with hyperlexia, or perhaps even all of them, lie on the autism spectrum. Some hyperlexics, however, have trouble understanding speech. First named and scientifically described in 1967 (Silverberg and Silverberg), it can be viewed as a superability in which word recognition ability goes far above expected levels of skill. ![]() Hyperlexic children are characterized by word-reading ability well above what would be expected given their age. Children with hyperlexia also present with an intense fascination for written material at a very early age. They indicated that children with hyperlexia have a significantly higher word-decoding ability than their reading comprehension levels. Silberberg (1967), who defined it as the precocious ability to read words without prior training in learning to read, typically before the age of five. Hyperlexia is a syndrome characterized by a child's precocious ability to read. William-Adolphe Bouguereau, The Difficult Lesson (1884) ![]()
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