Letter-By-Letter Reading: Natural Recovery and Response to Treatment
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Letter-By-Letter Reading: Natural Recovery and Response to Treatment
The present investigation provides a longitudinal study of an individual (RB) with acquired alexia following left posterior cerebral artery stroke. At initial testing, RB exhibited acquired alexia characterized by letter-by-letter (LBL) reading, mild anomic aphasia, and acquired agraphia. Repeated measures of reading accuracy and rate were collected for single words and text over the course of ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Behavioural Neurology
سال: 2005
ISSN: 0953-4180,1875-8584
DOI: 10.1155/2005/413962