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It’s a bird! It’s a plane! No, it’s Superman. If only dyslexia were so simple? It’s a learning disorder! It’s a language disorder! It’s brain damage! Is it alexia? Congenital word blindness? Minimal brain damage? Minimal cerebral dysfunction? No, it’s strephosymbolia (twisted symbols), specific learning disorder, specific learning disability… No one has it! Everyone has it!.
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Dysmetric indicates a CVS-spatial/temporal dysfunction. Dyslexia initially represented the visual reading impairment that I mistakenly equated with this total disorder, but later updated. And dyspraxia highlights the CVS-determined scrambled eye movements I initially considered secondarily scrambling the visual reading input—thus causing “dyslexia”— as well as accounting for all the other balance/coordination signs and symptoms found characterizing dyslexics.
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Levinson, H.N. (2019). Dyslexia by Any Other Name. In: Feeling Smarter and Smarter. Copernicus, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-16208-5_1
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