DEVELOPMENTAL APHASIA: Also known as Congenital Word-blindness and sometimes referred to as Alexia or Dyslexia

DEVELOPMENTAL APHASIA: Also known as Congenital Word-blindness and sometimes referred to as Alexia or Dyslexia.

EDINBURGH T'HIS remarkable developmental failure is met with in various sensory-motor affections and may be manifested in functional failure in connection with sight, hearing, kinaesthetic performance and probably in other functional activities. We are here concerned with developmental aphasia connected with vision, also referred to as congenital word-blindness. This disability is met with in c...

Congenital Word-Blindness

The importance of this condition lies in the fact that the cases are by no means uncommon, and that if the condition is recognized the child is saved much misery and the parents spared the expense and trouble of endeavouring to educate a child who through no fault of his own is incapable of achieving the results that are expected of him. The child will often develop an inferiority complex, as h...

11-cis retinol dehydrogenase mutations as a major cause of the congenital night-blindness disorder known as fundus albipunctatus.

PURPOSE Patients with fundus albipunctatus uniformly experience difficulty with vision at night. Their retinas are spotted with characteristic light yellow flecks of unknown composition that typically spare the macula. A defect in the transport or utilization of visual cycle retinoids is thought to underlie this recessive disorder with variable clinical expression. To elucidate the molecular de...

the differential effects of debate and media analysis as relate to enhancing efl learners critical thinking ability and writing performances

critical thinking ability has an important role in education. accordingly, scholars around the world are searching for new ways for teaching and improving students critical thinking ability. in line with the studies in efl contexts supporting the positive relationship between critical thinking and writing performances, this study investigated the differential effects of halverson’s critical thi...

Congenital Blindness as an Instance of Sensory Deprivation,