Pure Word Blindness
Jan 3 2014 11 30 am by chris weller.
Pure word blindness. A completely blind individual is unable to see at all. Pure agraphia refers to the inability to program movements necessary to form written words. Word blindness is a rare neurological condition.
Someone who has had a stroke may be left with pure total or partial word blindness. A study of dyslexia. Pure word blindness considered as a disturbance of visual space perception.
Proc r soc med. Pure word deafness is a rare type of aphasia most commonly caused by stroke. A neurological disorder characterized by loss of the ability to read or understand the written word.
Vision impairment can range from mild to sev. Pure word blindness n. Word blindness is a complex visual disturbance resulting from disease in the visual association areas at the back of the brain.
Blindness is strictly defined as the state of being totally sightless in both eyes. Pure word blindness stopped with letter tracing technique. Pmc free article warrington e zangwill ol.
Loss of the power to comprehend written materials despite preservation of the ability to write i e alexia without agraphia this condition is generally attributed to lesions that disconnect the visual cortex of the non dominant hemisphere from language centers in the dominant hemisphere. Individuals who have pure alexia have severe reading problems while other language related skills such as naming oral repetition auditory comprehension or writing are typically intact. The medical term is alexia without agraphia although a patient can write and understand the spoken word the patient is unable to read.
One woman s reading disorder prompted her to develop her own way of rehabilitating literacy. What is alexia without agraphia. J neurol neurosurg psychiatry.
Pure word deafness is a deficit distinct from generalized auditory agnosia in which comprehension and repetition of speech are impaired but reading writing and spontaneous speech are preserved. Stroke can be caused either by a clot obstructing the flow of blood to the brain called an ischemic stroke or by a blood vessel rupturing and preventing blood flow to the brain called a hemorrhagic stroke a transient ischemic attack or mini stroke is caused by a temporary clot. Photos courtesy of shutterstock.
Partial word blindness permits the individual to recognize.
