Abstract
In contrast to the plentiful descriptions of developmental surface dyslexia and developmental phonological dyslexia, descriptions of developmental deep dyslexia remain sparse in number, with some continuing to doubt its existence. This paper reports a case of developmental deep dyslexia in Williams syndrome (WS). The case constitutes the most convincing case of developmental deep dyslexia to date, with the largest number of semantic errors generated. It is also the first case study of early reading acquisition in WS. The pattern of semantic errors and absence of consistency effects ties in with the theory of sloppy lexical access or looser semantic specifications for lexical entries in WS, which has arisen from studies in WS, of lexical retrieval in other domains [J Neurolinguistics, 2002].
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