For context, I’m autistic and two of my 4 daughters also are (at least).
My nearly 2 year old seems to be very bright but I think this may just be another, different presentation of autism. Which is fine, of course but I’m not sure what I should be doing to help her. Her language development has been absolutely fine, though. Pointing early, starts a sentence with ‘Mummy…?’ She does say ‘Look….there’s a x’ to us and will draw our attention to things that interest her. No problems asking for things. Although she answers ‘no’ to things she doesn’t want but not ‘yes’ to things she does
She definitely has some unusual stuff going on. She can read numbers, letters and has known all colours and shapes from about 18 months at least, including shapes like ‘oval’ and ‘semi-circle’. She really enjoys watching phonics videos and trying to copy the sounds. To me, this is a bit strange.
Does anyone have any experience of hyperlexia? Because I’m autistic myself, I’m not going to notice so much when one of my children needs help with social skills. This certainly isn’t my strong point.
My nearly 2 year old seems to be very bright but I think this may just be another, different presentation of autism. Which is fine, of course but I’m not sure what I should be doing to help her. Her language development has been absolutely fine, though. Pointing early, starts a sentence with ‘Mummy…?’ She does say ‘Look….there’s a x’ to us and will draw our attention to things that interest her. No problems asking for things. Although she answers ‘no’ to things she doesn’t want but not ‘yes’ to things she does
She definitely has some unusual stuff going on. She can read numbers, letters and has known all colours and shapes from about 18 months at least, including shapes like ‘oval’ and ‘semi-circle’. She really enjoys watching phonics videos and trying to copy the sounds. To me, this is a bit strange.
Does anyone have any experience of hyperlexia? Because I’m autistic myself, I’m not going to notice so much when one of my children needs help with social skills. This certainly isn’t my strong point.