单词 | strephosymbolia |
释义 | strephosymbolian. Psychology. (See quot. 1937.) ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > degree or type of mental illness > [noun] > impairment of mental powers > dyslexia, aphasia, or dyscalculia aphemia1864 agraphia1867 aphasia1867 asymbolia1874 alexia1875 agraphy1879 amusia1890 anomia1897 dyslexia1917 strephosymbolia1925 acalculia1926 dysgraphia1934 dyscalculia1953 1925 S. T. Orton in Arch. Neurol. & Psychiatry (Chicago) 14 610 The term ‘congenital word-blindness’ because of its association with the acquired condition and the implications therefrom, does not seem to be properly descriptive of this disability, and I would therefore like to offer the term ‘strephosymbolia’..as a descriptive name for the whole group of children who show unusual difficulty in learning to read. 1937 S. T. Orton Reading, Writing & Speech Probl. in Children 214 Strephosymbolia, a delay or difficulty in learning to read..characterized by confusion between similarly formed but oppositely oriented letters, and a tendency to a changing order of direction in reading. 1968 E. J. Kahn Harvard xiv. 223 There are students who should be exempt from language requirements because they suffer from strephosymbolia—an affliction that makes it difficult..to see the ends of written words in unfamiliar languages. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online June 2018). < n.1925 |
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