Right Neglect Dyslexia: A Single Case Study

Abstract

A single case study of a right neglect dyslexic is reported. The patient's (RYT) single word reading difficulty was characterised by paralexic errors that affected word endings. An analysis of the error corpus demonstrates the maintenance of word length in his error responses and a gradient of accuracy across individual words irrespective of their length. The actual neglect point was found to be a function of word length. It is concluded that right neglect dyslexia is a reading-specific deficit in which there is activation of an inappropriate visual word form.