If so, your child may have a disorder called hyperlexia. (verywellfamily.com)
People with hyperlexia show heightened activity in the left superior temporal cortex, which is associated with understanding the sounds of speech. (sciencemag.org)
Eden and her colleagues published the first - ever fMRI study of individuals with dyslexia (Nature, 1996; 348: 66 - 69) and then the first imaging study of hyperlexia, in which a child with autism displays precocious reading ability (Neuron, 2004; 41: 11 - 25). (sciencemag.org)