Using errorless learning to treat letter-by-letter reading: contrasting word versus letter-based therapy

K Sage, A Hesketh, MAL Ralph - Neuropsychological …, 2005 - Taylor & Francis
Some pure alexic readers have been shown to activate lexical and semantic knowledge
under brief presentation conditions. This ability is not seen when letter-by-letter reading …

Rehabilitation for pure alexia: Efficacy of therapy and implications for models of normal word recognition

M Behrmann, J McLeod - Neuropsychological Rehabilitation, 1995 - Taylor & Francis
In an attempt to remediate the deficit in letter processing thought to underlie pure alexia or
letter-by-letter reading, a therapy programme was implemented with SI, a 46 year-old …

Can treatment for pure alexia improve letter-by-letter reading speed without sacrificing accuracy?

SN Lott, RB Friedman - Brain and language, 1999 - Elsevier
An experimental treatment study designed to improve both the accuracy and the speed of
reading was administered to a patient with pure alexia and impaired letter naming. The …

Multiple oral re-reading treatment for alexia: the parts may be greater than the whole

EH Lacey, SN Lott, SF Snider, A Sperling… - Neuropsychological …, 2010 - Taylor & Francis
This study examines the reasons for the success of Multiple Oral Re-reading (MOR; Moyer,
1979), a non-invasive, easily administered alexia treatment that has been reported in the …

Overt use of a tactile/kinaesthetic strategy shifts to covert processing in rehabilitation of letter-by-letter reading

SN Lott, AS Carney, LS Glezer, RB Friedman - Aphasiology, 2010 - Taylor & Francis
Background: Letter-by-letter readers identify each letter of the word they are reading serially
in left to right order before recognising the word. When their letter naming is also impaired …

Lexical access via letter naming in a profoundly alexic and anomic patient: A treatment study

ML GREENWALD, LJG ROTHI - Journal of the International …, 1998 - cambridge.org
We report the results of a letter naming treatment designed to facilitate letter-by-letter
reading in an aphasic patient with no reading ability. Patient MR's anomia for written letters …

by-letter reading? Functional deficits and compensatory strategies

CJ Price, GW Humphreys - Cognitive Neuropsychology, 1992 - Taylor & Francis
The investigation of two patients with acquired dyslexia is reported. Both showed abnormally
strong effects of word length on reading responses and occasionally named aloud the letters …

Reading too little into reading?: Strategies in the rehabilitation of acquired dyslexia

L Nickels - International Journal of Language & Communication …, 1995 - Wiley Online Library
ABSTRACTS This paper examines four recent therapy studies, two involving deep dyslexic
patients and two involving surface dyslexic patients. These studies illustrate that remediation …

Overcoming the effect of letter confusability in letter-by-letter reading: A rehabilitation study

L Harris, A Olson, G Humphreys - Neuropsychological …, 2013 - Taylor & Francis
Patients who read in a letter-by-letter manner can demonstrate effects of lexical variables
when reading words comprised of low confusability letters, suggesting the capacity to …

by-letter reading: Natural recovery and response to treatment

PM Beeson, JG Magloire, RR Robey - Behavioural Neurology, 2005 - content.iospress.com
The present investigation provides a longitudinal study of an individual (RB) with acquired
alexia following left posterior cerebral artery stroke. At initial testing, RB exhibited acquired …