dyslexia
word blindness

His only real experience, he said, was as a boy with dyslexia.

Now 44, he was found to have dyslexia in 1994.

I went to school with a girl who had dyslexia.

If you take away the dyslexia, it seems like my story.

But reading will likely not ever be easy for a person with dyslexia.

Some said dyslexia was a problem with the eyes - what people see when they try to read.

He had dyslexia and never learned to read or write.

It was there that she came to the field of dyslexia.

In people with dyslexia, the left side was more active than the right.

These tests can help find out if your child has dyslexia or another learning problem.

"I know a little bit about dyslexia," he had said, looking down at his bad hand.

Some scholars think she might have had a kind of dyslexia.

I am not defined by dyslexia and hope never to be.

But some people with dyslexia make the best business students, especially in accounting.

"They're also more likely to have dyslexia and to drop out of school."

United States law requires schools to set up a learning plan to meet the needs of a child with dyslexia.

The most common signs of dyslexia are reading and writing problems.

Several special education approaches have been developed for students with dyslexia.

However, was a poor student as a child, suffering from dyslexia.

He told me that it sounded like I had dyslexia.

Some of her students have serious learning disabilities, like dyslexia.

He found that the brains of those with dyslexia were different.

He learned to play guitar in order to help with his dyslexia.

What are common signs of dyslexia in children and adults?

Learn about the symptoms of dyslexia on the next page.

The wrong approach to reading, she says, is to blame for dyslexia and word blindness.

In those days it was called word blindness.

Before the term "dyslexia" came to prominence, this learning disability used to be known as "word blindness."

It is also called word blindness, text blindness or visual aphasia.

Morgan used the term 'word blindness,' in 1896.

Word blindness may refer to:

He believed that word blindness was the result of lesions to the left angular and supramarginal gyri.

Hinselwood expanded on 'word blindness' to describe the reversing of letters and similar phenomenon in 1900s.

Kussmaul also posited about the origins of Alexia (acquired dyslexia) also known as word blindness.

For a short time, she had gone from general blindness to something like word blindness, or alexia, a near relation to the learning disorder called dyslexia.

The librarian, a rather masculine looking woman called Gloria Dangerfield, thought girl was a frustrated academic, suffering from some kir of word blindness.

Strephosymbolia was first coined in 1925 by Samuel Orton as being an answer to the implications the term word blindness makes.

(He called it 'word blindness'.)

In the early years after its discovery, doctors, at a loss to explain how bright young patients could not master the basics of reading, referred to it as "word blindness."

During the 1890s and early 1900s, James Hinshelwood published a series of articles in medical journals describing similar cases of congenital word blindness.

In a monograph entitled "Special Disabilities in learning to read and write" Dearborn contributed a section on "etiology of congenital and word blindness".

Dearborn provided critical frameworks for understanding and treating reading difficulties and was among the first psychologists to refute the generally held view of "congenital word blindness" (now known as dyslexia).

In 1896, W. Pringle Morgan published a description of a reading-specific learning disorder in the British Medical Journal titled "Congenital Word Blindness".

From 1869 he published several papers on speech disorders, describing a visual and later an auditory word centre, as well as word blindness and word deafness (later known as Wernicke's aphasia).

Pure alexia, also known as agnosic alexia or alexia without agraphia or pure word blindness, is one form of alexia which makes up "the peripheral dyslexia" group.

Dejerine was one of the pioneers in the study of localisation of function in the brain, having first shown that word blindness may occur as the result of lesions of the supramarginal and angular gyri.

In his 1917 book Congenital Word Blindness, Hinshelwood asserted that the primary disability was in visual memory for words and letters, and described symptoms including letter reversals, and difficulties with spelling and reading comprehension.

Pure alexia ("alexia without dysgraphia" or "pure word blindness") is a category-specific agnosia, characterized by a distinct impairment in reading words, despite intact comprehension for verbally presented words, demonstrating retained semantic knowledge of words.

As described by the neurologist Oliver Sacks in the afterword of "Memory Book," the condition is "pure word blindness" resulting from an interruption of signals between the parts of the brain that receive visual data from the eye and those that decipher language.

Congenital Word Blindness Developmental Reading Disorder Primary Reading Disability Specific Reading Disability None Dyslexia is a condition in which an individual with normal vision is unable to interpret written language, and therefore is unable to read or may read slowly with great difficulty.