ATTENTIONAL DYSLEXIA - THE EFFECT OF COOCCURRING DEFICITS

The case study of PR, a patient with acquired dyslexia without dysgrap hia, is reported. PR was found to have a deficit in accessing phonolog y from semantics and a mild deficit in attending selectively to the co mponents making up visual displays. Coupled together, these two defici ts severely disrupted her ability to name the components of visual arr ays although she could name each component in isolation (the symptom o f patients classified as attentional dyslexics). We discuss the possib le importance of the cooccurrence of two or more deficits in producing some neuropsychological syndromes.