AVOID FLU!

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 3767, 15 March 1928, Page 1

AVOID FLU!

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BOY’S “WORD-BLINDNESS.”

Children, apparently normal, may be able to read figures and do sums, but find great difficulty in learning to recognise printed letters and words so that spelling and reading are extremely troublesome or even impossible. A ease of this condition of blindness in which no other defects can be found in the eyes and - eyesight was recently reported in the British Medical Journal. The writer states that it is highly probable that this is a trouble that is frequently overlooked.

The boy, aged 14, was taken to the doctor to see whether his difficulty in learning the letters of the alphabet and inability to read could be attributed to some visual defect. He had gone to school at five years of age, and at once his teachers noticed that lie experienced the greatest difficulty is learning the written letters of the alphabet, and that he was totally unable to recognise written words, however simple. The peculiarity being attributed to backwardness or stupidity, the boy was relegated to, and kept in, the infant classes throughout his school' life, even although he showed no difficulty in learning figures and is being able to do simple sums correctly. His general sight was normal; he was undersized for his age, but healthy looking, bright and intelligent. He had had no serious

illness and there' was no history of eye trouble in his family. When asked to read printed letters the lad only did so correctly after several unsuccessful attempts. He was totally unable to read even the simplest words, such as “cat” or “dog,” but the pictures of a cat or a dog he at once recognised and named correctly. He could write slowly and distinctly, but was unable to do so to dictation. He showed a marked aptitude and keenness for drawing.

The comment of the doctor who saw the case was: —“Had the condition been discovered earlier special tuition in spelling and reading could have been instituted, with the hope of overcoming to a certain extent this congenital disability. Several successful results have been recorded by various authori ties. The condition, as lias been said, may very easily be overlooked and the child’s inability to "learn his letters put lown to mental backwardness or sheer stupidity. It is, therefore, highly important that all cases!of children who exhibit a marked difficulty in learning their 'otters should be carefully investigated, and special individual tuition adopted if congenital wordblindness be diagnosed.” No single individual cause, writes the medical correspondent of the Morning Post, can be assigned for word-blindness, but it may be dye to a variety of causes, any one of which produces a definite- lesion in that portion of the brain known as tlio parietal. It is not an hereditary condition.