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  • Title: Spelling dyslexia: a deficit of the visual word-form.
    Author: Warrington EK, Langdon D.
    Journal: J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry; 1994 Feb; 57(2):211-6. PubMed ID: 8126508.
    Abstract:
    A patient with spelling dyslexia read both words and text accurately but slowly and laboriously letter by letter. Her performance on a test of lexical decision was slow. She had great difficulty in detecting a 'rogue' letter attached to the beginning or end of a word--for example, ksong--or in parsing two unspaced words, such as applepeach. By contrast she was immune to the effects of interpolating extraneous coloured letters in a word, a manipulation that affects normal readers. Therefore it is argued that this patient had damage to an early stage in the reading process, to the visual word form itself.
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