Individual, Family, and Community Education ETDs

Publication Date

Summer 7-27-1961

Abstract

The purpose of this study was (1) to relate three cases of severe reading disability in which the condition variously described as strephosymbolia, congenital alexia, or mirror vision has been considered a contributing cause of the reading handicaps; (2) to present the opinions held by various authors concerning such cases; and (3) to describe various types of remediation attempted for such cases.

Keywords

Reading Disabilities, Strephosymbolia, Alexia, Dyslexia, Dolch Basic Sight Words, Gilmore Oral Reading Test, Durrell Analysis of Reading Difficulty

Document Type

Thesis

Language

English

Degree Name

Educational Psychology

Level of Degree

Masters

Department Name

Individual, Family, and Community Education

First Committee Member (Chair)

Miles V. Zintz

Second Committee Member

L. Helen Walters

Third Committee Member

None

Fourth Committee Member

Edward Nolan

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