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Late Reading in Children
Author(s) -
Barger William Calvin
Publication year - 1959
Publication title -
developmental medicine and child neurology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.658
H-Index - 143
eISSN - 1469-8749
pISSN - 0012-1622
DOI - 10.1111/j.1469-8749.1959.tb08083.x
Subject(s) - dominance (genetics) , reading (process) , ocular dominance , psychology , perception , pupil , optometry , developmental psychology , cognitive psychology , linguistics , medicine , philosophy , biology , biochemistry , visual cortex , neuroscience , gene
Late reading may be due to twisted perception of letters, seeing “b” as “d”, etc. Such “strephosymbolia” has been ascribed to the lateral dominance of hands and eyes being mixed and to the child's failure to establish a necessary dominance. Dr. Barger describes tests for lateral dominance and his method of treating delayed reading in which the pupil starts by learning to read well in a mirror.