Re: Re: Hyperlexic language?? *

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My daughter sometimes makes up her own words. nne will say weird combo's of sounds that mean nothing and say it means something else for that moment not forever but for that reading or play time she will want the number 45 replaced with "a-kay-e". She will say the nneese word for 45 is "a-kay-e". Does any one else deal with this? It might just be her age too she is almost 4.cathyFrom: <ladle24@...>Subject: ( ) Re: Hyperlexics don't all LIKE to read Date: Friday, June 4, 2010, 12:49 PM

I also checked out "When Babies Read" from the library. I agree with you, and skippe dthoe whole part about teaching reading. However, there were two or three good and helpful chapters at the end, with activities for improving comprehension and theory of mind areas.

The book was probably targeted wrongly, because by the time you've already figured out that your kid can read early, the book loses a lot of relevance.

However, I wonder if research could be done into trying to teach young autistic children to read, and if that would improve long term outcome. Even though my hyperlexic does not like to read, reading was the magic road to communication and stability for us. I have a friend with a son in a dedicated autism classroom. He is now 4, but they are teaching them to read. I don't know if it is a "step above" your typical preschool play-classroom, but I think it might be. It will be interesting to see how this affects overall outcome.

>

> I did want to add to this thread that I mentioned a book I was reading

> the other day, "When babies read" and ugh. I did not like it overall

> for learning anything new about hyperlexia. the first chapter seems to

> describe the author's experience which was nice to read. And she did

> discuss how they used the ability to read to teach him the skills he

> was missing which we did as well and I agree with. It almost seems to

> me a "duh" thing, though. We did it automatically without knowing and

> I would like to think most people would get that. But then she goes

> into how to teach babies to read overall - something she advocates,

> especially for kids with disabilities but for all babies. And I really

> felt the topic of hyperlexia was gone by then. Then her own experience

> seems almost too good to be true - insurance company paid for home ABA

> program and school implemented intensive early intervention program. I

> was hoping she would tell us which insurance company and which school

> is so great! But she didn't. She has the standard "take cookies to

> the IEP meeting" advice. You can tell she's never been in a school

> system who refused to do the right thing and were willing to pay

> laywers big money to make their point. lol. Which is good for them,

> really. The less people have to struggle, the better. But I don't

> know if people who haven't had to fight for anything have really

> experienced the situation to where they should give advice to people

> who have or are going through that. Not that they can't but that it

> always seems to be those little pieces of advice that you are so far

> past by this point. if the obvious worked, we wouldn't be here, is my

> motto to that end. <g>

>

> Anyway, too bad. I had hoped to gain some insight into the disorder.

>

> Roxanna

> Whenever I feel blue, I start breathing again.

>

[Guest guest]

I don't think it is a connection with hyperlexia but probably some kids

do that as part of their development and probably have a good

imagination.

The one thing my boys both did was not making up imaginary languages

and words but they would name things simply. For instance, my

husband's grandma was a very short woman and my ds would call her, " The

little grandma " instead of calling her by her name. It was usually

naming things that were just obviously descriptive that way vs. making

up names or different words for things.

Roxanna

Whenever I feel blue, I start breathing again.

( ) Re: Hyperlexics don't all LIKE to read

Date: Friday, June 4, 2010, 12:49 PM

 

I also checked out " When Babies Read " from the library. I agree with

you, and skippe dthoe whole part about teaching reading. However,

there were two or three good and helpful chapters at the end, with

activities for improving comprehension and theory of mind areas.

The book was probably targeted wrongly, because by the time you've

already figured out that your kid can read early, the book loses a lot

of relevance.

However, I wonder if research could be done into trying to teach young

autistic children to read, and if that would improve long term outcome.

Even though my hyperlexic does not like to read, reading was the magic

road to communication and stability for us. I have a friend with a son

in a dedicated autism classroom. He is now 4, but they are teaching

them to read. I don't know if it is a " step above " your typical

preschool play-classroom, but I think it might be. It will be

interesting to see how this affects overall outcome.

>

> I did want to add to this thread that I mentioned a book I was

reading

> the other day, " When babies read " and ugh. I did not like it overall

> for learning anything new about hyperlexia. the first chapter seems

to

> describe the author's experience which was nice to read. And she did

> discuss how they used the ability to read to teach him the skills he

> was missing which we did as well and I agree with. It almost seems

to

> me a " duh " thing, though. We did it automatically without knowing

and

> I would like to think most people would get that. But then she goes

> into how to teach babies to read overall - something she advocates,

> especially for kids with disabilities but for all babies. And I

really

> felt the topic of hyperlexia was gone by then. Then her own

experience

> seems almost too good to be true - insurance company paid for home

ABA

> program and school implemented intensive early intervention program.

I

> was hoping she would tell us which insurance company and which school

> is so great! But she didn't. She has the standard " take cookies to

> the IEP meeting " advice. You can tell she's never been in a school

> system who refused to do the right thing and were willing to pay

> laywers big money to make their point. lol. Which is good for them,

> really. The less people have to struggle, the better. But I don't

> know if people who haven't had to fight for anything have really

> experienced the situation to where they should give advice to people

> who have or are going through that. Not that they can't but that it

> always seems to be those little pieces of advice that you are so far

> past by this point. if the obvious worked, we wouldn't be here, is

my

> motto to that end. <g>

>

> Anyway, too bad. I had hoped to gain some insight into the disorder.

>

> Roxanna

> Whenever I feel blue, I start breathing again.

>