Center for Speech and Language Disorders

From my online research, it seems that there is really one therapist who is considered an expert in hyperlexia. Lucky for us, her practice is in the Chicago area, and called the Center for Speech and Language Disorders. Since they are such experts in the field, they offer services for out-of-town families. We were fortunate to be able to schedule a two-day appointment (one day will be an evaluation, the second will be more about future therapies) with the nation's expert on hyperlexia, Phyllis Kupperman, for November 27 and 28. I'm so excited about the prospects of getting information that will potentially help us unlock Garrison's voice. After reading the book "Reading too Soon" for which Phyllis Kupperman wrote the foreword, Amos and I are completely convinced that Garrison is indeed hyperlexic.

hyperlexia?

So, I suspect Garrison has hyperlexia. I'm having a hard time finding much about it online, which is hard to believe, because you can find something about just about anything online. We're planning a trip to a place in Chicago to have him evaluated and get some help leveraging his unusual and precocious reading ability to push his speech along. He has difficulty conversing and I hope this will help. Another thing I've been doing, since I'm not teaching right now, is gathering resources for helping G with speech stuff. Testy yet Trying and Adventures in Speech Pathology and Jake's Journey to be a Little Man are currently open in my browser, and I'm grateful for the ideas I've found there and on Pinterest.