O'Connor N, Hermelin B
Institute of Education, University of London.
J Autism Dev Disord. 1994 Aug;24(4):501-15. doi: 10.1007/BF02172131.
Two young autistic children of normal intelligence were tested repeatedly for their reading ability. Their comprehension was appropriate for their developmental status, however, they had reading speeds that were considerably faster than those of their age-matched normal controls. Randomizing word order, and thereby reducing meaningfulness, resulted in an equivalent reduction in relative reading speeds for the younger autistic subject and his control. For the older of the normal children, the effect of randomizing word order was very marked, whereas its effect was minimal for the older of the two autistic boys. The results are regarded as an indication that efficient grapheme-phoneme conversion is a modular component of the reading skill and this transcoding process is primarily responsible for the fast reading of the autistic children.
对两名智力正常的自闭症幼儿的阅读能力进行了多次测试。他们的阅读理解能力与其发育状况相符，然而，他们的阅读速度比年龄匹配的正常对照组要快得多。随机排列单词顺序，从而降低其意义性，导致较年幼的自闭症受试者及其对照组的相对阅读速度同等降低。对于年龄较大的正常儿童，随机排列单词顺序的影响非常显著，而对于两名自闭症男孩中年龄较大的那个，其影响则微乎其微。这些结果被视为一个迹象，表明有效的字素-音素转换是阅读技能的一个模块化组成部分，并且这种转码过程主要是自闭症儿童快速阅读的原因。
