Strephosymbolia

Strephosymbolia is a term coined in 1925 by Samuel Orton to distinguish between itself and "word-blindness". No reasons were given for what these distinctions arise from, or what exactly strephosymbolia means other than "a descriptive name for the whole group of children who show unusual difficulty in learning to read".^[1] This definition was subsequently changed in 1937 to specify that, as a condition, it creates difficulty in seeing the ends of written words in unfamiliar languages, especially those in which the letters look similar to each other such as "b" and "d", "m" and "n" and "p" and "q".

References

↑ McClelland, Jane. "Gillingham: Contemporary After 76 Years", Annals of Dyslexia 49 (1989): 3-49.

General
conditions

Speech and language impairments / communication disorders	Expressive language disorder Infantile speech Landau–Kleffner syndrome Language disorder Lisp Mixed receptive-expressive language disorder Specific language impairment Speech and language impairment Speech disorder Speech error Speech sound disorder Stammering Tip of the tongue

Scholastic skills/ learning disorder	Developmental dyslexia Dyscalculia Dysgraphia (Disorder of written expression)

Motor function	Developmental coordination disorder Developmental verbal dyspraxia also known as Childhood apraxia of speech

Other	Auditory processing disorder Sensory processing disorder

Strephosymbolia

See also

References