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- adjective Describes a person who shows
hyperlexia
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Often, hyperlexic children will have a precocious ability to read but will learn to speak only by Rote Learning and heavy repetition, and may also have difficulty learning the rules of language from examples or from trial and error, which may result in social problems.
Barriers to Reading Comprehension « Literacy Articles « Articles « Literacy News 2009
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Some hyperlexic children learn to spell long words before they are two and learn to read whole sentences before they turn three.
Barriers to Reading Comprehension « Literacy Articles « Articles « Literacy News 2009
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It would be very cool if I had found another adult hyperlexic --- you see a lot of mommy blogs about child hyperlexics, but nothing about the experiences of adults.
Who Me, Think? Anne Johnson 2007
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Some hyperlexic children learn to spell long words (such as elephant) before they are two and learn to read whole sentences before they turn three.
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Despite hyperlexic children's precocious reading ability, they may struggle to communicate.
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Often, hyperlexic children will have a precocious ability to read but will learn to speak only by rote and heavy repetition, and may also have difficulty learning the rules of language from examples or from trial and error, which may result in social problems.
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Some hyperlexic children learn to spell long words (such as elephant) before they are two and learn to read whole sentences before they turn three.
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Often, hyperlexic children will have a precocious ability to read but will learn to speak only by rote and heavy repetition, and may also have difficulty learning the rules of language from examples or from trial and error, which may result in social problems.
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Despite hyperlexic children's precocious reading ability, they may struggle to communicate.
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Often, hyperlexic children will have a precocious ability to read but will learn to speak only by rote and heavy repetition, and may also have difficulty learning the rules of language from examples or from trial and error, which may result in social problems.
mollusque commented on the word hyperlexic
When I started first grade I was hyperlexic, having learned to read at my mother's knee. "Sound out the words," she would say, and in the face of English's myriad phonetic inconsistencies, that is still my policy.
--Roy Blount Jr., 2008, Alphabet Juice, p. 85
January 3, 2009