Oral naming and oral reading: Do they speak the same language?

We present evidence from a fluent aphasic subject with intact comprehension but moderate word-finding difficulties. Despite her anemia in picture nami ng, MOS displayed normal performance in reading aloud, even when tested on lower-frequency words with atypical spelling-to-sound correspondences. We a rgue that, contrary to some recent interpretations of preserved reading wit h impaired naming, this pattern does not demonstrate separate task-specific speech lexicons, but rather reflects inherent differences between the proc esses of naming and reading. In support of this hypothesis, when given appr opriate assistance (in this case multi-phonemic cueing), MOS achieved pictu re naming scores within normal limits.