Hyperlexia in children with autism spectrum disorders

Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 760-774

  Newman, Tina M ^a,b   Macomber, Donna ^a   Naples, Adam J ^a   Babitz, Tammy ^b   Volkmar, Fred ^b   Grigorenko, Elena L ^a,b  

^a PACE Center   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD); Comprehension; Hyperlexia; Reading; Single word processing

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTISM; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPREHENSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDER; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERLEXIA; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; LANGUAGE ABILITY; MALE; MENTAL DEVELOPMENT; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; READING; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADOLESCENT; APTITUDE; AUTISTIC DISORDER; AWARENESS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMPREHENSION; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTELLIGENCE; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PHONETICS; READING; REFERENCE VALUES; SEMANTICS;

EID: 34147116731     PISSN: 01623257     EISSN: 15733432     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10803-006-0206-y     Document Type: Article

References (58)

1. Aram, D. M., & Healy, J. M. (1988). Hyperlexia: A review of extraordinary word recognition. In L. Obler, & D. Fein (Eds.), Neuropsychology of talent. New York: Guilford.
2. Aram, D. M., Rose, D. F., & Horwitz, S. J. (1984). Hyperlexia: Developmental reading without meaning. In R. M. Joshi, & A. A. Whitaker (Eds.), Dyslexia: A global issue (pp. 517-531). The Hague, Netherlands: Martinus Nijhoff.
3. Burd, L., Fisher, W., Knowlton, D., & Kerbeshian, J. (1987). Hyperlexia: A marker for improvement in children with pervasive developmental disorder? Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 26, 407-412.
4. Burd, L., & Kerbeshian, J. (1985). Hyperlexia and a variant of hypergraphia. Perceptual and Motor Skills, 60, 940-942.
5. Cain, K., Oakhill, J., & Bryant, P. (2004). Children's reading comprehension ability: Concurrent prediction by working memory, verbal ability, and component skills. Journal of Educational Psychology, 96, 31-42.
6. Cobrinik, L. (1982). The performance of hyperlexic children on an "incomplete words" task. Neuropsychology, 20, 569-577.
7. Elliot, D. E., & Needleman, R. M. (1976). The syndrome of hyperlexia. Brain and Language, 3, 339-349.
8. Fisher, W., Burd, L., & Kerbeshian, J. (1988). Markers for improvement in children with pervasive developmental disorders. Journal of Mental Deficiency Research, 32, 357-369.
9. Fombonne., E., (2003). Epidemiological surveys of autism and other pervasive developmental disorders: An update. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 33, 365-382.
10. Frith, U., & Snowling, M. (1983). Reading for meaning and reading for sound in autistic and dyslexic children. British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 1, 329-342.
11. Gardner, M. F. (1996). Test of visual-perceptual skills (non-motor) - Revised. Burlingame, CA: Psychological and Educational Publications.
12. Glosser, G., Friedman, R., & Roeltgen, D., (1996). Clues to the cognitive organization of reading and writing from developmental hyperlexia, Neuropsychology, 10, 168-175.
13. Glosser, G., Grugan, P., & Friedman, R. B. (1997). Semantic memory impairment does not impact on phonological and orthographical processing in a case of developmental hyperlexia. Brain and Language, 56, 234-247.
14. Goldberg, T. E. (1987). On hermetic reading abilities. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 17, 29-44.
15. Goldberg, T., & Rothermel, R. (1984). Hyperlexic children reading. Brain, 107, 759-785.
16. Grigorenko, E. L. (2001). Developmental dyslexia: An update on genes, brains, and environments. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 42, 91-125.
17. Grigorenko, E. L., Klin, A., Pauls, D. L., Senft, R., Hooper, C., & Volkmar, F. (2002). A descriptive study of hyperlexia in a clinically referred sample of children with developmental delays. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorder, 32, 3-12).
18. Grigorenko, E. L., Volkmar, F., & Klin, A. (2003). Hyperlexia: Disability or superability? Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 44, 1079-1091.
19. Harm, M. W., & Seidenberg, M. S. (2004). Computing the meanings of words in reading: Cooperative division of labor between visual and phonological processes. Psychological Review, 111, 662-720.
20. Healy, D. M., & Aram, J. M. (1986). Hyperlexia and dyslexia: A family study. Annals of Dyslexia, 36, 237-252.
21. Healy, J. M., Aram, D. M., Horwitz, S. J.,&Kessler, J. W. (1982). A study of hyperlexia. Brain and Language, 17, 1- 23.
22. Huberty, C. J., & Morris, J. D. (1989). Multivariate analysis versus multiple univariate analyses. Psychological Bulletin, 105, 302-308.
23. Huberty, C. J., & Petoskey, M. D. (2000). Multivariate analysis of variance and covariance. In H. E. A. Tinsley, & S. D. Brown (Eds). Handbook of applied multivariate statistics and mathematical modeling (pp. 183-208). San Diego, CA: Academic Press.
24. Huttenlocher, P. R., & Huttenlocher, J. (1973). A study of children with hyperlexia. Neurology, 23, 1107-1116.
25. Jastak, J. F., & Jastak, S. (1965). Wide range achievement test. Wilmington: Guidance Associates.
26. Keselman, H. J., Huberty, C. J., Lix, L. M., Olejnik, S., Cribbie, R. A., Donahue, B., Kowalchuk, R. K., Lowman, L. L., Petoskey, M. D., Keselman, J. C. (1998). Statistical practices of educational researchers: An analysis of their ANOVA, MANOVA, and ANCOVA analyses. Review of Educational Research, 68, 350-386.
27. Leach, J. M., Scarborough, H. S., Rescorla, L. (1993). Lateemerging reading disabilities. Journal of Educational Psychology, 95, 211-224.
28. Mehegan, C. C., & Dreifuss, F. E., (1972). Hyperlexia: Exceptional reading ability in brain-damaged children. Neurology, 22, 1105-1111.
29. Minshew, N. J., Goldstein, G., Taylor, H. G., Siegel, D. J. (1994). Academic achievement in high functioning autistic individuals. Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology, 16, 261-270.
30. Moore, D. S. (1995). The basic practice of statistics. New York, NY: Freeman and Co.
31. Nation, K. (1999). Reading skills in hyperlexia: A developmental perspective. Psychological Bulletin, 125, 338-355.
32. Nation, K., Clarke, P. Marshall, C. M., & Durand, M. (2004). Hidden language impairments in children, parallels between poor reading comprehension and specific language impairment? Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 47, 199-211.
33. Niensted, (1968). Hyperlexia: An educational disease? Exceptional Children, 35, 162-163.
34. Oakhill, J. (1994). Individual differences in children's text comprehension. In: M. A. Gernsbacher (Ed.), Handbook of psycholinguistics (pp. 821-848). San Diego, CA, US: Academic Press.
35. Oakhill, J. V., Cain, K., & Bryant, P. E. (2003). The dissociation of word reading and text comprehension: Evidence from component skills. Language and Cognitive Processes, 18, 443-468.
36. O'Connor, N., & Hermelin, B. (1994). Two autistic savant readers. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 24, 501-515.
37. Perneger, T. V. (1998). What is wrong with Bonferroni adjustments. British Medical Journal, 136, 1236-1238.
38. Pennington, B. F., Johnson, C., & Welsch, M. C., (1987). Unexpected reading precocity in a normal preschooler: Implications for hyperlexia. Brain and Language, 30, 165-180.
39. Perfetti, C. A. (1994). Psycholinguistics and reading ability. In: M. A. Gernsbacher (Ed.), Handbook of psycholinguistics (pp. 849-894). San Diego, CA, US: Academic Press.
40. Pugh, K. R., Mencl, W. E., Jenner, A. R., Katz, L., Frost, S. J., Lee, J. R., Shaywitz, S. E., & Shaywitz, B. A., (2001). Neurobiological studies of reading and reading disability. Journal of Communication Disorders, 34, 479-492.
41. Rispens, J., & Van Berckelaer, I. A. (1991). Hyperlexia: Definition and criterion. In J. R. Malatesha (Ed.), Written language disorders (pp. 143-163). New York: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers.
42. Scarborough, H. S., & Domgaard, R. M. (1998). An exploration of the relationship between reading and rapid serial naming. Presented at the conference of the Society for the Scientific Study of Reading, San Diego CA.
43. Seidenberg, M. S., & McClelland, J. L. (1989). A distributed, developmental model of word recognition and naming. Psychological Review, 96, 523-568.
44. Seymour, P. H. K., & Evans, H. M. (1992). Beginning reading without semantics: A cognitive study of hyperlexia. Cognitive Neuropsychology, 9, 89-122.
45. Shaywitz, B. A., Shaywitz, S. E., Blachman, B., Pugh, K. R., Fulbright, R. K., Skudlarski, P., Mencl, W. E., Constable, R. T., Holahan, J. M., Marchione, K. E., Fletcher, J. M., Lyon, G. R., Gore, J. C. (2004). Development of left occipitotemporal systems for skilled reading following a phonologically based intervention in children. Pediatric Research, 55, 926-933.
46. Silberberg, N. E., & Silberberg, M. C. (1967). Hyperlexia: Specific word recognition skills in young children. Exceptional Children, 34, 41-42.
47. Silberberg, N. E., & Silberberg, M. C. (1968). Case histories in hyperlexia. Journal of School Psychology, 7, 3-7.
48. Smith, I. M., & Bryson, S. E. (1988). Monozygotic twins concordant for autism and hyperlexia. Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology, 30, 527-535.
49. Snowling, M., & Frith, U. (1986). Comprehension in "hyperlexic" readers. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 42, 392-415.
50. Sparks, R. L. (1995). Phonemic awareness in hyperlexic children. Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 7, 217-235.
51. Sparks, R. L. (2001). Phonemic awareness and reading skill in hyperlexic children: A longitudinal study. Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 14, 333-360.
52. Szatmari, P., Tuff, L., Finlayson, M. A. J., & Bartolucci, G. (1990). Asperger's syndrome and autism: Neurocognitive aspects. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 29, 130-136.
53. Temple, C. M., & Carney, R. (1996). Reading skills in children with Turner's syndrome: An analysis of hyperlexia. Cortex, 32(2), 335-345.
54. Vellutino, F. R., Fletcher, J. M., Snowling, M. J., & Scanlon, D. M. (2004). Specific reading disability (dyslexia): What have we learned in the past four decades? Journal of Child Psychology & Psychiatry, 45, 2-40.
55. Wagner, R. K., Torgesen, J. K., & Rashotte, C. A. (1999). Comprehensive test of phonological processing. Austin, TX: Pro-Ed.
56. Whitehouse, D., & Harris, J. C. (1984). Hyperlexia in infantile autism. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 14, 281-289.
57. Wolf, M., & Bowers, P. (1999). The "Double-Deficit Hypothesis" for the developmental dyslexia. Journal of Educational Psychology, 91, 1-24.
58. Woodcock, R. W., McGrew, K. S., & Mather, N. (2001). Woodcock-Johnson III tests of achievement. Itasca, IL: Riverside Publishing.