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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Mine was diagnosed with that really young and was a late talker. We also pushed for an autism diagnosis. Most doctors tread lightly with that and I am not looking to open up pandora's box with all the MERLD parents being furious to imply autism and MERLD present and are neurologically similar. Doesn't matter. You know what matters? Autism got us tons of services. We were also told services would be the same for both DX, but autism gets more. We tried ABA and it was not a match, but did lots of ST, OT, etc.

Fast forward to age 3 he started reading on his own-dx: hyperlexia.

Fast forward to late elementary. He is and has been since starting school, mainstreamed completely with an IEP. He has friends. He does well at school with support as needed. He is happy. He has a strong IQ, but you would not have known that when he bombed his early intervention testing and then bombed his testing again at age 4. He still has language processing issues, but is within the average range as per testing for receptive and expressive.

There I plenty of hope. Intervention is key. Every child is different, but every child can meet their own potential with help.[/quote]

My child started reading on his own at 3 too.  I think its common for these kids as their learning style is more visual and that is how a lot of speech therapy is done.  We had him evaluated by Dr. Camarata who said it wasn't hyperlexia and some kids just start reading early.    Their brains work differently.[/quote]

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