title: [Hyperorthographia (author's transl)].
abstract: Under the name of hyperorthographia a girl of ten years of age who has the capacity to detect and correct with an amazing quickness errors in spelling in as many words as she knew from having seen then written before is presented. She does not correct words that are not familiar to her, and she passes over them as if they did not exist. her writing is very elementary and she only writes her name and simple words in capital letters, not knowing how to do them in minuscule letters. The reading out loud is fluid, but not as fast as the correction of errors in spelling when she reads to herself, but she fails to read words that are not commonly used and that she had not seen written before. She did not understand what she had read. This child is a mentally retarded girl who had presented pre and perinatal anoxia, had shown West syndrome at 5 months, walked and talked between 4 1/2 and 6 years of age. Nowadays, she is a very restless child, with a difficult personality, has an IQ of 65, and presents evident signs of motor disease.
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D004410:Dyslexia / Q000150:complications; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008607:Intellectual Disability / Q000150:complications / Q000523:psychology*; D009069:Movement Disorders / Q000150:complications; D013036:Spasms, Infantile / Q000150:complications; D014956:Writing
vernacular_title: Hiperortografía.