DEVELOPMENTAL PHONOLOGICAL DYSLEXIA - REAL WORD READING CAN BE COMPLETELY NORMAL

This paper provides a detailed analysis of the reading performance of an 85-year-old subject with developmental phonological dyslexia. Altho ugh her nonword reading was severely impaired, Melanie-Jane read real words with normal latencies and accuracy. Investigation of the factors affecting reading latencies showed that M-J had normal effects of fre quency and imageability and no effects of regularity. Like many phonol ogical dyslexics, M-J was impaired in phonological tasks not involving written stimuli. The implications of this pattern of results for theo ries of reading development and for recent computational models of ski lled reading are considered.