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 Forum: General Autism Discussion   Topic: Hyperlexia type 3

rhp
Posted: 06 Apr 2014, 9:28 am 

Replies: 3
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My son matches the hyperlexia type 3 profile and I was more type 1 like. But I think both of us have had a meaningful social learning difference. Whether it's called autism or not... it's really more about insurance and school bureaucracy than about us. The hyperlexia 3 article is not really consist...

 Forum: General Autism Discussion   Topic: Aspergers and Autism two different conditions?

rhp
Posted: 29 Nov 2013, 9:51 pm 

Replies: 19
Views: 1,530
For (enormous) detail about this, see this book: Rethinking Autism: Variation and Complexity, by Lynn Waterhouse. As best I can tell, many researchers currently believe that autism may have "subtypes" - I've seen speculation guessing around 10 subtypes, and other speculation with much higher numbers...

 Forum: General Autism Discussion   Topic: Autism is a vague diagnosis.

rhp
Posted: 12 Nov 2013, 1:51 pm 

Replies: 11
Views: 1,363
I'm reading this book right now, "rethinking autism" by Lynn Waterhouse. http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0124159613 This is helpful to get a sense of the science. She doesn't even think subtypes make sense necessarily because she argues the subtypes may not even make sense to group together under a ca...

 Forum: General Autism Discussion   Topic: Hyperlexia?

rhp
Posted: 26 Oct 2013, 9:58 am 

Replies: 6
Views: 1,412
My son is interested in comprehension now (almost 4) but at 2 and even 3.5 was definitely more about cataloging and memorizing (first letters/numbers, then words and other things). We started an ABA program around reading stories and asking wh-questions about them and he's quickly picked it up. He l...

 Forum: General Autism Discussion   Topic: Asperger tendencies; son is hyperlexic (not with autism)

rhp
Posted: 04 Oct 2013, 4:30 am 

Replies: 6
Views: 3,468
A thing to know is that autism diagnosis is not a bright-line exercise. It's more like asking the question "does this person have an IQ above 120?" than it is like "does this person have the flu?" - it's a line drawn on an imperfectly-measured dimensional trait, not a thing you have or do not have. ...

 Forum: General Autism Discussion   Topic: Asperger tendencies; son is hyperlexic (not with autism)

rhp
Posted: 04 Oct 2013, 1:55 am 

Replies: 6
Views: 3,468
My son and I are similar, but I'm not comfortable with "hyperlexia III" as the full story. I have a hyperlexia bibliography at my blog "Intellectualizing" and there's a thread on davidsongifted you can google for. (I'm not allowed to post links as a new wrongplanet user, but these are directly about...

 Forum: Parents' Discussion   Topic: Health insurance and autism

rhp
Posted: 07 Jun 2013, 8:59 pm 

Replies: 5
Views: 1,772
Last I read, the essential health benefit would be based on existing plans in each state. So in the 30-something states already mandating behavioral treatment for autism the health exchange plans would also cover it. But in the other states they would not. Some of the state autism insurance mandates...

 Forum: General Autism Discussion   Topic: Hyperlexia difference to AS/HFA

rhp
Posted: 11 Mar 2013, 5:20 pm 

Replies: 23
Views: 4,008
It definitely needs more research. My son is hyperlexic and probably just around the ASD borderline somewhere. We will see how he grows up eventually (and see how he does on the ADOS in the short term). I was an early reader as a child as well and also probably around the borderline somewhere. For b...

 Forum: General Autism Discussion   Topic: Hyperlexia difference to AS/HFA

rhp
Posted: 11 Mar 2013, 2:42 pm 

Replies: 23
Views: 4,008
Hyperlexia doesn't have an "official" definition, it isn't a diagnostic code in DSM or ICD. I think I've read almost everything available online regarding hyperlexia. The most comprehensive information on it I've found is a slide deck from Phyllis Kupperman which is available by registering for a co...
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