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Hyperlexia And Autism Why Your Two Year Old Can Read (SHOCK) · Aspergers & Autism Podcast [The Aspie World] AuDHD

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  So hyperlexia and autism. This is why your toddler can
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  read. Hey guys, welcome back to the
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  aspy world. My name is Dan.
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  OK, so Hyperlexia. This has been probably one of
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  the most requested videos I've had in a long time if you want
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  me to talk about Hyperlexia. So Hyperlexia basically is a is
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  basically an ability where a child can read far beyond their
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  reading age. Like the four year old could be
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  reading books that are made for teenagers, right?
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  Which is super interesting. So hyperlexia and autism come
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  kind of hand in hand, but hyperlexia is a recognition and
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  so it isn't always within an autism selection disorder.
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  So hyperlexia, because it's quite rare, it doesn't happen
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  with, it's not common within everybody with autism, but it is
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  commonly associated. If you do have hyperlexia, it's
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  probably alongside the fact that you are autistic as well.
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  So it is actually possible to have a diagnosis of just
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  hyperlexia without being Co occurring with autism.
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  So again, this is kind of super rare, but it does happen.
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  You can't just have hyperlexia or hyperlexia and not show what
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  the pronunciation is. So that being said, it's
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  commonly linked with autism and it showed that 84% of children
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  with hyperlexia are on the autism spectrum, which is quite
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  interesting. You know, statistics are pretty
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  high, right? And it's a fascinating
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  condition. And it leads to many to wonder
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  if a child is gifted or if a child is on the autism spectrum.
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  Because that's another thing you can have gifted children, which
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  they're just really, you know, super gifted in a certain area.
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  But hyperlexia, actually, it comes as more of a condition
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  because obviously it's kind of come over with things like
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  autism. So what I've done is I wanted to
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  talk about some signs of hyperlexia so that you could
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  kind of identify it in somebody you know and how how to really
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  know if someone has hyperlexia or they're gifted, right.
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  So the first thing I want to talk about is signs of
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  developmental disorders. So as children with hyperlexia
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  are able to read really well because like that's the
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  condition, they will also show issues in developing other
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  skills, kind of like speaking and learning to speak.
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  And not only will they develop speech delay, sometimes they can
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  actually be nonverbal and not speak at all.
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  So they may be really advanced in reading and read everything
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  into the sun, but they probably won't be able to speak those
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  things back to you, which is quite interesting.
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  Right now, #2 is quite an obvious one, but it's affinity
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  for books. So children with hyperlexia will
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  have like a huge affinity for books and reading for obvious
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  reasons. It's because, well, read books
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  contain words and words are used for reading.
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  And reading is kind of like where, you know, hyperlexia
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  takes flight. That's what it is.
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  It's it's a reading thing. So I find it really, really
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  interesting that it's just, it just, it fascinates me.
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  It absolutely fascinates me. But books doesn't doesn't just
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  mean like, you know, analog books from back in the day.
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  This could be audio books, this could be like any kind of book.
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  It could be a PDF, iBooks, whatever, you know, digital
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  downloads. But definitely for books is is,
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  is what it's at because it's also kind of like a learning
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  thing, so reading and learning at the same time, which is where
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  that kind of comes into play here.
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  So #3 is the ability to learn quickly like I've seen about
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  learning, right. So children, Hyperlexia will be
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  able to learn to read really quickly without much teaching
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  involved. You know, they might to get them
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  started, they may need a little bit of like pacing together of
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  things just like typically anybody else would.
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  But the acceleration from, you know, starting to read to being
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  expert level reading kind of just goes super fast.
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  And people with hyperlexia are just really quick at learning
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  those things because they kind of absorb all of those things
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  that come out of the disorder. They learn all the things that
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  are coming into the play, like how to read a book, how to
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  develop sentences within that book, how to learn the structure
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  of a book. And then they'll have an
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  affinity, four books. I think this is absolutely
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  fascinating. Again, it's a super
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  recommendation, but it's 84% come orbid with autism spectrum
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  disorders. So I want to know, do you guys
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  know much about hyperlexia? Have you ever come across it?
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  Do you have hyperlexia? Drop me a comment down below and
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  let's have a conversation about that because it's super new to
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  me and I'd love to know that, right?
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