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

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your son saying things like I can't use the soap Is super cute! You should tell everyone that and write it down forever. My daughter reads but is a huge arguer too. She read no smoking and said what is smoking. I told her it was yucky and explained it simply. She said I want to smoke. I told her no it was yucky and she freaked out and begged me to smoke. i panicked and said it is illegal and when you 18 you can make that choice for yourself! sillyCAthyFrom: jm.smoldt <jm.smoldt@...>Subject: ( ) Re: Hyperlexics don't all LIKE to readTo:

Date: Friday, June 4, 2010, 9:27 AM

My son doesn't like reading books unless it is something related to one of his obsessions. However he does read everything, signs, labels, everything. He told us yesterday that he can't use soap on his hands because the label says "keep out of reach of children".

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> > I am surprised by so many people saying that their kids love to read.

> > My ds is hyperlexic and does not like reading.

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> My ds does not like to read just anything either. He'd read off of electronic displays, signs, TV close captioning, but he doesn't just pick up a book and read it on his own. Once in a while if it's a book that's fun and new he'd want to read it with us over and over for a few days, like "Cloudy with a chance of meatballs", or the Cars movie story, etc.

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> It seems to me there are 2 factors that might contribute to the difference in whether they LIKE to read,

> 1 is the learning/thinking style, whether they are visual or auditory/verbal. Visual ones just like the shapes and symbolic icons. Auditory/verbal ones would read/listen more because they enjoy it.

> 2 is they just like novel stuff. With my ds and a few other ASD kids I've found they are interested in completely strange things that they don't know or understand, it's almost like they crave the unknown, for no reason at all. Once it's known they lose interest. I know kids are all like that to some extent, but some HFAs are extremely so.

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> Whether they comprehend of course is a totally different issue.

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> My ds' case a visual + novelty effect + bilingual. I once read some theory saying it's really better for kids to focus on one language before 2. Truly bilingual kids from birth sometimes learn both like foreign languages, by echolocation, copying entire sentences and phrases without comprehending them, etc. When they are overwhelmed by a strong emotion, sometimes they can't use either languages to express themselves, or have another "language"(sounds) that is neither. These descriptions all fit my ds pretty well. Also we can't figure out whether he is seeing the words in his mind before he says it, which language he thinks of first, etc., anyway it's a lot of work in that poor head of his.

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