PEDIATRICS Vol. 31 No. 4 April 1963, pp. 669-691
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WORD-BLINDNESS—A SURVEY OF THE LITERATURE AND A REPORT OF TWENTY-EIGHT CASES

Theodore M. Heller M.D.1

1 Bureau of Educational Research, Board of Education of the City of New York

The literature on word-blindness has been reviewed from the time of Kussmaul, who invented the term in 1877, to the present. Twenty-eight selected cases of word-blindness are presented. A method of diagnosis and treatment are described, and a theoretical explanation for this special type of reading disability is proposed.

Submitted on April 19, 1962
Accepted on August 21, 1962