What is hyperlexia?
Hyper meaning too much, and lexia means reading. Too much reading. The kid can read way above what they can understand. Hyperlexia is a condition where the child is able to sound out and pronounce words correctly but does not understand/comprehend what he/she has read. The ability to decode is strong, but there is no understanding of the concepts being read. Hyperlexia is often referred to as “word calling”. Instructional reading level: ready to be taught. Frustration level: Too difficult. Most of us can understand something if someone else reads to us. We can understand more than we can decode. Kids with hyperlexia can decode. They have the opposite. They are just word calling because they don’t get the concept.
