Reading, Writing and Speech Problems in Children

The author then proceeds to describe cases of delay or disorder in the acquisition of language and its written expression, and classes them under six headings. In these chapters, the presentation of some interesting material is somewhat marred by an unnecessarily involved mode of expression and by the adoption sometimes of an equally unnecessary complication of terms. It would seem, for instance, simpler and no less clear to speak of a " tricycle" rather than of a " three wheeled velocipede ", and to mention " children occasionally making reversals "