We found superior visual memory in almost al cases. It seems unusual to talk about a higher verbal IQ in a child who has a language disorder, but when you look at the nonverbal learning disordered kids or Asperger's Syndrome, you see children who have relatively intact language in many ways but have difficulty in the use of language pragmatically. This group had superior auditory memory, but they had impaired cognitive organization. The language learning disorder group had more phonics errors when they were reading, whereas the visual spatial disordered type had very few phonics errors. Hyperlexia Language Disorder Hyperlexic Visual-Spatial Disorder Expressive language deficit, despite good rote memory skills.
Language is delayed, echolalic and perserverative.
Problems in understanding overall meaning beyond rote recall. Autistic like symptoms. Language pragmatic deficit in expressing and interpreting experiential aspects of language and environment. Problems with reading comprehension may not show up in the early grades because of good memory. Make tangential associations, which produce offbeat responses.