Hyperlexia in a 4-year-old boy with Autistic Spectrum Disorder
Atkin, K. and Lorch, Marjorie (2006) Hyperlexia in a 4-year-old boy with Autistic Spectrum Disorder. Journal of Neurolinguistics 19 (4), pp. 253-269. ISSN 0911-6044.
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Abstract
This paper presents a case study of a 4-year-old boy with Autistic Spectrum Disorder and a mental age of approximately 1:5 who demonstrates precocious oral-reading behaviour in the absence of spontaneous speech. Tests of reading regular and irregular words, pseudowords, homographic heterophones, single sentences and texts were carried out. Performance on a variety of reading tasks suggests the ability to use grapheme–phoneme correspondences and whole word reading for decoding single words. In addition, successful reading of some homographic heterophones and semantic paraphrasing of texts suggests a level of lexical, syntactic, semantic and pragmatic development far beyond his mental or chronological age. The realisation of highly developed reading ability is paradoxical in the context of profound impairment in cognitive development and an absence of spoken language.
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| Item Type: | Article |
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| Additional Information: | NOTICE: this is the author’s version of a work that was accepted for publication in Journal of Neurolinguistics. Changes resulting from the publishing process, such as peer review, editing, corrections, structural formatting, and other quality control mechanisms may not be reflected in this document. Changes may have been made to this work since it was submitted for publication. A definitive version was subsequently published in Journal of Neurolinguistics, 19(4), July 2006, DOI: 10.1016/j.jneuroling.2005.11.006 |
| Keyword(s) / Subject(s): | Hyperlexia, Autism, Reading acquisition, Reading comprehension |
| School: | School of Social Sciences, History and Philosophy > Applied Linguistics and Communication (to 2020) |
| Depositing User: | Marjorie Lorch |
| Date Deposited: | 11 Oct 2007 |
| Last Modified: | 11 Jun 2021 12:13 |
| URI: | https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/581 |
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