title: Developmental deep dyslexia?
abstract: A detailed analysis was made of the errors of a developmental dyslexic who is now 18 years of age. It was found that her error pattern was very similar to that observed in a particular form of acquired dyslexia, i.e. deep dyslexia. She made semantic, visual, derivational and function word substitution errors, and was almost completely unable to read non-words. Although the possibility of brain damage cannot be completely ruled out, her case remains an unusual one as her reading disorder is a certain extent developmental in nature in that she has never achieved fluent reading.
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D001925:Brain Damage, Chronic / Q000523:psychology; D004193:Discrimination Learning; D004292:Dominance, Cerebral; D004410:Dyslexia / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000523:psychology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D010700:Phonetics