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  • Title: Can treatment for pure alexia improve letter-by-letter reading speed without sacrificing accuracy?
    Author: Nitzberg Lott S, Friedman RB.
    Journal: Brain Lang; 1999 May; 67(3):188-201. PubMed ID: 10210630.
    Abstract:
    An experimental treatment study designed to improve both the accuracy and the speed of reading was administered to a patient with pure alexia and impaired letter naming. The study focused on the use of letter-by-letter reading. A two-stage approach was employed. The first stage implemented a tactile-kinesthetic strategy to improve accuracy. The second stage concentrated on speed. At the end of the treatment, patient DL was reading both trained and untrained words more accurately and with considerably greater speed than prior to treatment. Accuracy and speed of reading at the sentence level improved as well.
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