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Autism/PDD & Hyperlexia
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Most people have never heard of hyperlexia, and neither had we until our two year old son was reading on his own, and spelling words on the refridgerator with plastic magnets. Now we are trying to educate the people who work with our two boys about this educational diagnoses.
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Reading Too Soon: How to
Understand and Help the Hyperlexic Child by Susan Martins Miller
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This is one of the best books to help explain hyperlexia. It answers such questions as...
* How can a child read so well but not understand what I say?
* How do I get my son's teacher to understand his special needs?
* What should I say to neighbors who offer advice I don't need?
And much more.
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Autism Resources
A list of resource found on the World Wide Web, including papers, discussion groups, and other orginazations devoted to working with parents and teachers.
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Let Me Hear Your Voice:
A Family's
Triumph over Autism by
Catherine Maurice
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Future Horizons is the only publishing company that exclusively dedicates its disability division to books on Autism/PDD. As such, it has more annual sales of books on autism than any publisher in the world.
Future Horizons also offers conferences on Autism across the United States and has plans to host several in foreign countries in 1997.
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In the tradition of Nobody Nowhere, this "universal tale of hope, dogged parental love, hard work and ultimate triumph" (The Boston Globe) is an illuminating account of how a mother's love saved her two children from a diagnosis of "incurable" autism. Catherine Maurice is a pseudonym.
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Books linked to Amazon.com bookstore, and can be purchased through them.
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