A Cognitive Neuropsychological Framework for Assessing Reading Disorders

摘要: Reading is a learned skill that engages complex set of cognitive procedures. By virtue its complexity, it vulnerable to disruption with many different kinds brain damage. impairment characteristic almost all patients acquired aphasia (Goodglass & Kaplan, 1983), and reading disorders persist chronically in the overwhelming majority these aphasic (Webb Love, 1983). Detailed assessment pattern disturbance, or alexia, can be informative about underlying neural dysfunction as well integrity various component neuropsychological processes. Since fundamentally linguistic activity based on prior mastery auditory language skills, possible learn function components processing system through careful analysis performance. also depends visual processing. Visual letter word identification pose same problems other types patterns for recognition system, so functions certain mechanisms may he revealed competence prerequisite adult functional activities; hence, comprehensive capabilities important predicting living skills.