By Sara Finegan When I met him, Bobby was a fourth grader with autism, struggling to make meaning of the words he so easily read aloud (decoded). He had hyperlexia, a common condition with children on the autism spectrum, in which they seem to read well but comprehend little. Research suggested to me that something [...]
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