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ERIC Number: EJ991380
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2012-Dec
Pages: 12
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ISSN: ISSN-0028-3932
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When "Slime" Becomes "Smile": Developmental Letter Position Dyslexia in English
Kohnen, Saskia; Nickels, Lyndsey; Castles, Anne; Friedmann, Naama; McArthur, Genevieve
Neuropsychologia, v50 n14 p3681-3692 Dec 2012
We report the first three cases of selective developmental letter position dyslexia in English. Although the parents and teachers of the children were concerned about these children's reading, standard tests did not reveal their deficit. It was only when the appropriate target words were presented, in this case, migratable words, that their letter position dyslexia was detected. Whereas previous research has described cases with acquired and developmental forms of letter position dyslexia in Hebrew and Arabic readers, this is the first report of this type of reading disorder in English. The cardinal symptom of letter position dyslexia is the migration of letters within the word (reading "slime" as "smile"; "pirates" as "parties"). These migration errors occur in reading aloud as well as in tasks of silent reading. This study provides further evidence that migration errors emerge at the level of early visual-orthographic analysis, in the letter position encoding function. Alternative explanations for the occurrence of migration errors such as poor phonological processing or a deficit in the orthographic input lexicon are ruled out. (Contains 1 figure and 7 tables.)
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Language: English
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