THE ASSESSMENT OF SURFACE DYSLEXIA IN A REGULAR ORTHOGRAPHY, SPANISH - A CASE-STUDY

The main characteristic of surface dyslexia is the production of regul arization errors when reading aloud irregularly spelled words. The tes ting for this dyslexic syndrome in Spanish where correspondence from g rapheme-to-phoneme is regular can be problematic. Taking advantage of the highly lexicalized stress pattern in this language, a test was des igned to assess reading regularization errors. Other manifestations of SD such as homophone confusion, frequency, word category, and imagibi lity effects were studied. We report a case of acquired dyslexia and d ysgraphia in a unilingual Spanish speaker showing ail the symptoms of surface dyslexia as described for opaque orthographies.