DS was reading at least somewhat before he could talk (I still feel the curiosity about how much, but at the time I was squeamish about doing the deliberate tests it would have taken to find out, so I only have the bits we found out by accident!) and then he learned to speak and read better in parallel.
Mine too. DS10 had to learn the ABCs before he had any significant number of spoken words, and his talking came along in parallel with his reading. He did have lots of ear infections, but I would attribute this in retrospect to his ASD and the need to figure out a way to process and cope with language.
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