Childhood reading delays?

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Is autism connected to reading delay's in children? I'm still trying to put the pieces of my childhood together (simply because I'm curious), and I know that I was put in a special reading classroom for 1st and 2nd grade. I have no idea what the details of that are, but I can only assume it was because I had some sort of trouble with it. Again, in 8th grade, I was made to drop my extra curricular class in order to take a special reading course. There were only 2 other students in the class with me, and we just read books and talked about them for the entire year.

I've heard about young children with asperger's being advanced in reading (reading before they were even taught), but I was wondering if the opposite is sometimes true?

It does happen. I've tutored some of my autistic peers who couldn't read and write very well. I was a rather early reader, though.

Yes

Problems with reading and writing are related to verbal and communication delays

I was a very late talker and could read and write before i talked.

It can be, but it doesn't have to be. Many hyperlexic children are also on the spectrum, and these people read at a very early age. I talked around age 5...I could also read novels around that time too.

I'm with the OP, Still can't read or write to save my life. Struggled from grade 1 to present day, can't read more then 4 pages at a time, takes me 6+ months to read a 350 page book, can't comprehend the written word either. I'm a visual and practical learner, ain't a picture worth 1000 words? I can read upside down equaly good as upside up!

I was late learning to read and write but once I git it, I got it.

My speech therapist taught me how to read both sight words and phonics when I was about four. I supposed I progressed normally until I got into chapter books, then I had a lot of trouble focusing on them to the end until I was put on ADHD meds.

No reading delay as a child here.
The only problem I have with reading is the fact that after reading a text I can't often immediately understand it.

I'm still a slow reader, but I also had dyslexia as a child.
Autistics have more often lerning disorders.

All reading abilities can be present in those on the spectrum. Sometimes, there can be issues, which aren't integral to the autism, but often come alongside it, e.g. dyslexia. And hyperlexia seems to be more common among those on the spectrum, than in the general population. Hyperlexia results in early reading, but can also cause problems with comprehension, which is an important part of learning to read properly. So, early reading is not necessarily a sign that the child is going to be good at it. I'm pretty sure I have hyperlexia. I was reading at 3yrs and started school a year early because of my reading ability. I don't appear to have the comprehension problems and never have, but I really struggle with concentration and can't read books, in the usual fashion, unless I'm gripped from paragraph 1. But, I suspect this problem is down to undiagnosed ADHD. My daughter's reading at the level expected for her age. She has concentration difficulties, whch impacts on that, but no issues specifically associated with reading.

I read words early (age 2), but did not have good reading comprehension until much later, but caught up and beyond by 5th grade.