Originally Posted by Chicagomom
If you have a hyperlexic child, what your experience has been like? Can you be hyperlexic and truly gifted?

Often gifted/ASD children look hyperlexic because no one can believe they are comprehending at so young an age. (True hyperlexia is early decoding without comprehension.)

The gifted/ASD may have the very early decoding, *but be reading with comprehension*-- in which case they're not hyperlexic.

The gifted/ASD combination is unusual enough that many providers won't catch it early, and mistake the gifted reading for hyperlexia.

I don't see why gifted/hyperlexia would be impossible-- I would just bet that hyperlexia is overdiagnosed in the ASD population.