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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The early reading is called hyperlexia.  Not everyone who is hyperlexic is on the spectrum.  Your DD may have Non-Verbal Learning Disorder.  It's pretty rare, and some are hyperlexic:

http://www.ldonline.org/article/6114/

Whether or not she has NV LD or any LD, you may want to think about enrolling her in a social skills group.  Social skills are exactly that skills that need practice.  Some kids come to socializing naturally and others need a little help.  One-on-one play dates will also help her practice her social skills.

There's a good checklist on how to have a successful play date in the back of this book:
http://www.amazon.com/Its-Much-Work-Your-Friend/dp/0743254651/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1410484534&sr=1-1&keywords=it%27s+so+much+work+to+be+your+friend[/quote]

Not all early readers are hyperlexic -  hyperlexia means they can "read" perfectly but not understand what they are reading.  If they can comprehend what they read, it's not hyperlexia.[/quote]

While it's true that not all early readers are hyperlexic, it is not true that hyperlexia always incorporates failure to comprehend.  There is "neurotypical hyperlexia".  Although given the very young age of the OP's child and the social/pragmatic issues her DC has, I think she is right to question whether her DC is neurotypical.

OP, have you had any kind of speech/language evaluation from a speech therapist?  The main thing I would ask for is a good evaluation of social/pragmatic skills.  Often a neuropsych will just assess this on the basis of the personal interaction during the assessment.  But an SPL will check a wider range of skills with standardized testing.  There are such tests like the Test of Pragmatic Language, the Social Langauge Development test, etc.  I also wonder about your child's reading comprehension.  A good SPL will be able to separate her high decoding from her reading comprehension and normally does a better error analysis than the reading achievement tests that are given during a neuropsych exams.  Good SPLs are really attuned to the ways in which lack of social understanding impacts reading comprehension.   [/quote]

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