Learning of oral reading in childhood aphasia

Abstract

    We reported a case of acquired aphasia in childhood. The case was a right-handed boy, 7 y. 7 m. at onset. The aphasia type was conduction aphasia, gradually recovered in auditory comprehension and speech. But it remained difficult for the subject to learn reading, writing and arithmetic in the classroom.
    In this report, the child's oral reading errors were analyzed. They presented different patterns from adult aphasics, adult dyslexics and developmental dyslexics. Also, normal children's errors in reading were almost similar to the subject's errors in characters, except for errors in grapheme-phoneme conversion, but he made many more errors than normal children.