This thread features a parent sharing a detailed success story about their child James, who overcame significant speech delays and autism spectrum regressions to become a reader at 33 months. The discussion includes personal anecdotes about his hyperlexic traits, specific reading strategies like finger-tapping, and the community's supportive responses sharing their own children's reading milestones.
Highlights from the Discussion
Korrale4kq: James has had significant speech delays due to major regressions from being potentially on the the Autism Spectrum. At one point he was at least a year delayed.
Korrale4kq: About 8 months ago I found that James would speak when he read words. And only when he read words.
Korrale4kq: When he would lose focus I would tap at the word to draw his attention back to it. Now he does it to ask what the word means.