Enhanced interest in letters and numbers in autistic children
Abstract Background An intense and precocious interest in written material, together with a discrepancy between decoding and reading comprehension skills are defining criteria for hyperlexia, which is found in up to 20% of autistic individuals. It may represent the extreme end of a broader interest...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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BMC
2024-06-01
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| Series: | Molecular Autism |
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1186/s13229-024-00606-4 |