Hyperlexia Hyperlexia Hyperlexia is a syndrome characterized by a child's precocious ability to read. It was initially identified by Norman E. Silberberg and Margaret C. Silberberg (1967), who defined it as the precocious ability to read words without prior training in learning to read, typically before the age of 5. They indicated that children with hyperlexia have a significantly higher word-decoding ability than their reading comprehension levels. Children with hyperlexia also present with an intense fascination for written material at a very early age. Hyperlexic children are characterized by having average or above-average IQs, and word-reading ability well above what would
What Have You Done to Solange? unborn child with a knitting needle. The betrayal at the hands of her friends, who murdered her unborn child (and left her unable to ever have any children, due to nature of the abortion) against her will, caused Solange to go irreversibly insane. After confessing, the father then takes his own life. "What Have You Done to Solange?" was an Italian and West German co-production, and credits itself as being based on "The Clue of the New Pin" by Edgar Wallace. The film bears very little relationship to the novel, with authors and film historians Kim Newman and Michael Mackenzie