Hyperlexia and a variant of hypergraphia

Percept Mot Skills. 1985 Jun;60(3):940-2. doi: 10.2466/pms.1985.60.3.940.

Abstract

A patient with hyperlexia and hypergraphia is described. The unusual co-occurrence of these two abilities is discussed. Hyperlexia may provide a useful marker to guide educational programming.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Brain Neoplasms / psychology
  • Child
  • Education, Special
  • Humans
  • Intellectual Disability / psychology*
  • Male
  • Neurocognitive Disorders / psychology
  • Neurofibromatosis 1 / psychology
  • Reading*
  • Writing*