Abstract

The article by Little and Goldstein is interesting considering that alexia without agraphia in childhood has rarely been described.1 We have encountered three cases of acquired alexia in children. The first case was a 10-year-old boy in the fourth grade who was admitted following an automobile accident. He sustained right occipital and left temporal skull fractures and a left parietal contusion. When tested 10 days after the accident, he had no significant aphasia and no visual field defect. He could read letters but could not read words or sentences yet was able to spell and write to dictation. …

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