Department of Human Neurosciences, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy.
Clin Ter. 2022 Feb 7;173(1):15-21. doi: 10.7417/CT.2022.2385.
Hyperlexia is defined by a precocious and sponta-neously acquired ability to read at preschool age. Hyperlexia appears to be a wide yet not highly studied phenomenon involving different populations and possibly including children with different neuropsy-chological profiles and outcomes.
We describe two clinical cases of unrelated children diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) who both showed precocious and spontaneous reading ability. We report the neuropsy-chological assessment they underwent.
Both children showed above average IQ, reading skills, and text comprehension, whereas one showed below average comprehen-sion only in oral text. We question whether these two phenotypes can be considered forms of hyperlexia, as defined by the most recent and consistent observations, or a subtype of ASD with hyperlexia.
We conclude that our patients should be considered hyperlexic ASD, with interesting potential implications for progno-sis and rehabilitation.
超阅读能力是指在学前阶段就能熟练而自发地阅读的能力。超阅读能力是一种广泛但尚未得到充分研究的现象，涉及不同人群，可能包括具有不同神经心理学特征和结果的儿童。
我们描述了两个患有自闭症谱系障碍（ASD）的无关儿童的临床病例，他们都表现出了早熟和自发的阅读能力。我们报告了他们接受的神经心理学评估。
两个孩子的智商、阅读技能和文本理解都高于平均水平，而只有一个孩子在口头文本理解方面低于平均水平。我们质疑这两种表型是否可以被认为是最近和一致的观察结果所定义的超阅读能力的形式，或者是具有超阅读能力的 ASD 的一个亚型。
我们得出结论，我们的患者应被视为具有超阅读能力的自闭症谱系障碍患者，这对预后和康复具有有趣的潜在影响。
