PEDIATRICS Vol. 7 No. 1 January 1951, pp. 60-68
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CONGENITAL VERBAL-AUDITORY AGNOSIA

(Word Deafness)

ISAAC W. KARLIN M.D.1

1 The Speech Clinic, Pediatric Department, The Jewish Hospital of Brooklyn, Brooklyn.

The term congenital verbal auditory agnosia is proposed as a name for congenital word deafness in children.

The clinical features that these children present are: (a) lack of speech or limited speech; (b) an ability to hear sounds combined with inability to comprehend words by the auditory route.

The defect is apparently in the audito-psychic area or Wernicke's area.

The unusual case of a child with congenital verbal auditory agnosia is described.

Submitted on May 15, 1950