Acquired Dyslexia

Acquired Dyslexia Presenters: Kerri Whalen, Angela Munroe, Jeff Collins http://acsweb.ucis.dal.ca/psych3130/Lecture_notes/feb_19.html1. Kerri Whalen Acquired Dyslexia: Surface Dyslexia (grapheme-phoneme) Two ÔproblemsÕ associated with surface dyslexia: 1. (Luria, 1947) Difficulty in remembering the phonemes represented by different letters: much; monk 2. Difficulty in reading groups of letters forming sequential patterns, for he has lost the schemata whereby letters appearing in sequences unite to form syllables: congratulations (shons) and congratulations (eye-oh-nn-ss) -This disorder …

…better than abstract words. Function words poorly read. Nonword reading virtually impossible. At chance on judging whether two words rhymed. These two studies would seem to provide conclusive evidence for the right-hemisphere interpretation of deep dyslexia. Treatment In deep dyslexia, the brain damage is extensive, the reading impairment is severe, and the patient is aphasic as well as dyslexic. Nevertheless, the condition responds to appropriate and intensive treatment; this has been demonstrated by de Partz (1986).