Hyperlexia in Autistic Kids

Commonly co-occurring, but not mutually inclusive

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Hyperlexia

Hyperlexia is advanced and unexpected reading skills and abilities in children way beyond their chronological age.

Hyperlexia is most common in, but not exclusive to, Autistic children.

Approximately 84% of hyperlexic kids are also autistic.

A child can be one and not the other, however; approximately 9–14% of autistic children are hyperlexic.

Learn more here:

Explaining Autism to Kids

References

Martens, G., & Van der Gucht, L. (2022). All to No A Veil: Crip Humour and Neurodiversity in David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest. In D. de Muijnck, J. Jumpertz, R. Schneider, & T. Turnbull (Eds.), Poetics of Disturbances: Narratives of Non-Normative Bodies and Minds. Leiden: Brill…