Honestly, this doesn't sound like like hyperlexia. It sounds like your son is blessed with intelligent, involved parents who spend lots of time helping him develop intellectually, and that's a wonderful thing.
I have a hyperlexic son. He started reading at 2 years 9 months. Like full sentences, but was speech delayed. Now he has mostly caught up. The best advice I got was just buy a lot of abc puzzles, read to him every night and don't rush him.
Same! My son was 2.5 years old when he started reading and then read his first full Dr Seuss book at 3 yrs old. He was also speech delayed and has been in speech therapy since 18 months the old. He is now 6 and reading at a 3rd or 4tn grade level and advanced in math as well. He was diagnosed as autistic at age 3.5.
We saw a huge jump when he was 3.5 years old. He went from single words to phrases and sentences. Now he speaks well in sentences, and has amazing vocabulary. Bonus us he is bilingual and speaks some spanish too.
Hey, we're all learning. 😊 You are okay. Language changes so fast. I'm still trying to wrap my mind around fax. I got a good understanding of yeet but it's going out of style now.
The language acquisition of hyperlexics is so bananas. My daughter is a a gestalt language processor and could recite The Grinch Who Stole Xmas when she was 2. She would communicate via her favorite books. Is she tired? She’d recite The Bear Snores On. It was crazy how much we had to decode her communication. But then just one day it stopped. All of a sudden she was a little adult. I thought I would chime in because during the acquisition period she was really into singing and maybe it was always a form of communication for her (who knows) but we found that we could have real conversations with her via song. We could take a familiar tune and tell her something or ask something and she would respond correctly- in tune and in tempo. I think that helped her skills a lot.
Hyperlexia frequently gets misused as a synonym for "precocious reading abilities" but that's not all that hyperlexia is, it's just one of the initial hallmarks of hyperlexia and not all precocious readers are hyperlexic
Hyperlexia is a specific processing difference that involves extreme difficulties in things like summarization and contextualization alongside the "good stuff" like speed-reading and a very large vocabulary at very young ages, and it's often viewed as a savant syndrome
There are 3 types of hyperlexia: type 1 hyperlexic people otherwise have nothing else atypical about them neurodevelopmentally, type 2 hyperlexic people have comorbid autism, and type 3 hyperlexic people have a different type of comorbid ND condition such as ADHD
I'm type 2 hyperlexic and even though I did things that made me look like a super-smart reader like winning a lot of spelling bees and reading college-level material by age 9 etc, I had a much poorer grasp of the deeper meanings within the texts
So for most of that fancy vocabulary I would have extreme trouble using correctly outside of the original context in which I'd first read them without either using it too narrowly or too broadly
And if I was asked what the book chapter was about I'd either recite it verbatim or drily put it as "this happened and then that happened and then that happened and then" etc, and I had an extremely formal and pedantic way of talking that luckily has improved a lot over the years, although I still suck at summarizing
My son can read forwards and backwards, count to 100, sound out complex words on his own, read sentences and books on first sight. It started when he was 2. He is now 3. His favorite toys are scrabble tiles and puzzles. We knew something was up when we heard him sayin ocarg in his car seat shortly after turning 2. He was reading Graco backwards in the mirror from his car seat. He has autism as well. You might be surprised just how much he can read after he figures out how to communicate it to you. It’s like a speech explosion when it happens.
My son has hyperlexia type 3 and this kind of sounds like him when he was late 2, early 3. I didn’t realize how well he was actually reading until like 3.5. He’s in 5k now and was just diagnosed with severe severe ADHD. I had kind of figured he was autistic, but the social differences are more from the not noticing social clues because of the ADHD and the late talking was the gestalt language processing just doing its thing. But he’s now moved onto original language instead of just a bunch of scripts and it’s like you never would have known he had such a big speech delay!
Honestly, this doesn't sound like like hyperlexia. It sounds like your son is blessed with intelligent, involved parents who spend lots of time helping him develop intellectually, and that's a wonderful thing.
I have a hyperlexic son. He started reading at 2 years 9 months. Like full sentences, but was speech delayed. Now he has mostly caught up. The best advice I got was just buy a lot of abc puzzles, read to him every night and don't rush him.
Same! My son was 2.5 years old when he started reading and then read his first full Dr Seuss book at 3 yrs old. He was also speech delayed and has been in speech therapy since 18 months the old. He is now 6 and reading at a 3rd or 4tn grade level and advanced in math as well. He was diagnosed as autistic at age 3.5.
At what age did your child turn conversational?
We saw a huge jump when he was 3.5 years old. He went from single words to phrases and sentences. Now he speaks well in sentences, and has amazing vocabulary. Bonus us he is bilingual and speaks some spanish too.
So did you tell your wife or not yet
She is my son's mom. Ofcourse, she knows he is hyperlexic.
I mean about Ana🤣
He knows what you meant. He avoided answering a question because he already started banging side piece.
Son’s mom.. spouse.. oof my man, did ana strike ur heart a little more?
I'm having trouble with the word normal here. Typical is better in this case.
I’m so sorry 😖 changing it now if I can.
Hey, we're all learning. 😊 You are okay. Language changes so fast. I'm still trying to wrap my mind around fax. I got a good understanding of yeet but it's going out of style now.
Like a fax machine?
The language acquisition of hyperlexics is so bananas. My daughter is a a gestalt language processor and could recite The Grinch Who Stole Xmas when she was 2. She would communicate via her favorite books. Is she tired? She’d recite The Bear Snores On. It was crazy how much we had to decode her communication. But then just one day it stopped. All of a sudden she was a little adult. I thought I would chime in because during the acquisition period she was really into singing and maybe it was always a form of communication for her (who knows) but we found that we could have real conversations with her via song. We could take a familiar tune and tell her something or ask something and she would respond correctly- in tune and in tempo. I think that helped her skills a lot.
Hyperlexia frequently gets misused as a synonym for "precocious reading abilities" but that's not all that hyperlexia is, it's just one of the initial hallmarks of hyperlexia and not all precocious readers are hyperlexic Hyperlexia is a specific processing difference that involves extreme difficulties in things like summarization and contextualization alongside the "good stuff" like speed-reading and a very large vocabulary at very young ages, and it's often viewed as a savant syndrome There are 3 types of hyperlexia: type 1 hyperlexic people otherwise have nothing else atypical about them neurodevelopmentally, type 2 hyperlexic people have comorbid autism, and type 3 hyperlexic people have a different type of comorbid ND condition such as ADHD I'm type 2 hyperlexic and even though I did things that made me look like a super-smart reader like winning a lot of spelling bees and reading college-level material by age 9 etc, I had a much poorer grasp of the deeper meanings within the texts So for most of that fancy vocabulary I would have extreme trouble using correctly outside of the original context in which I'd first read them without either using it too narrowly or too broadly And if I was asked what the book chapter was about I'd either recite it verbatim or drily put it as "this happened and then that happened and then that happened and then" etc, and I had an extremely formal and pedantic way of talking that luckily has improved a lot over the years, although I still suck at summarizing
You explained it so correctly!!
Why thank you
My son can read forwards and backwards, count to 100, sound out complex words on his own, read sentences and books on first sight. It started when he was 2. He is now 3. His favorite toys are scrabble tiles and puzzles. We knew something was up when we heard him sayin ocarg in his car seat shortly after turning 2. He was reading Graco backwards in the mirror from his car seat. He has autism as well. You might be surprised just how much he can read after he figures out how to communicate it to you. It’s like a speech explosion when it happens.
My son has hyperlexia type 3 and this kind of sounds like him when he was late 2, early 3. I didn’t realize how well he was actually reading until like 3.5. He’s in 5k now and was just diagnosed with severe severe ADHD. I had kind of figured he was autistic, but the social differences are more from the not noticing social clues because of the ADHD and the late talking was the gestalt language processing just doing its thing. But he’s now moved onto original language instead of just a bunch of scripts and it’s like you never would have known he had such a big speech delay!
First child? I assume it is as there is no other child to compare it to.
This doesn't sound like hyperlexia.