Event Abstract Back to Event Characteristics of Acquired Dyslexia in Persian; The Effect of Orthographic Depth Mehdi Bakhtiar1* and Brendan Weekes2 1 Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Chinese and Bilingual Studies, Hong Kong, SAR China 2 The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, SAR China Persian language uses a modified version of Arabic for its writing system, which is characterized by a degree of consistency between Orthography-Phonology (OP) mappings making many words transparent. However, omission of vowels in the script used by skilled readers makes the OP mapping of many words unpredictable or opaque. In this study 21 Persian speakers with aphasia were asked to read aloud the printed names of 200 objects. For the measure of sublexical reading, patients were asked to read aloud 30 non-word stimuli. Mixed-effects logistic regression revealed that word frequency, age of acquisition and imageability predict success in word reading. Furthermore, opaque words were read less accurately than transparent words. The results reveal different patterns of acquired dyslexia in some cases that closely resemble phonological, deep, and surface dyslexia in other scripts, which will be reported in more details. Keywords: Persian, AOA, Orthographic depth, Aphasia, acquired dyslexia Conference: 54th Annual Academy of Aphasia Meeting, Llandudno, United Kingdom, 16 Oct - 18 Oct, 2016. Presentation Type: Poster Sessions Topic: Academy of Aphasia Citation: Bakhtiar M and Weekes B (2016). Characteristics of Acquired Dyslexia in Persian; The Effect of Orthographic Depth. Front. Psychol. Conference Abstract: 54th Annual Academy of Aphasia Meeting. doi: 10.3389/conf.fpsyg.2016.68.00127 Copyright: The abstracts in this collection have not been subject to any Frontiers peer review or checks, and are not endorsed by Frontiers. They are made available through the Frontiers publishing platform as a service to conference organizers and presenters. The copyright in the individual abstracts is owned by the author of each abstract or his/her employer unless otherwise stated. Each abstract, as well as the collection of abstracts, are published under a Creative Commons CC-BY 4.0 (attribution) licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) and may thus be reproduced, translated, adapted and be the subject of derivative works provided the authors and Frontiers are attributed. For Frontiers’ terms and conditions please see https://www.frontiersin.org/legal/terms-and-conditions. Received: 01 May 2016; Published Online: 15 Aug 2016. * Correspondence: Dr. Mehdi Bakhtiar, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Chinese and Bilingual Studies, Hong Kong, Hong Kong, SAR China, mbakhtiar@gmail.com Login Required This action requires you to be registered with Frontiers and logged in. To register or login click here. Abstract Info Abstract The Authors in Frontiers Mehdi Bakhtiar Brendan Weekes Google Mehdi Bakhtiar Brendan Weekes Google Scholar Mehdi Bakhtiar Brendan Weekes PubMed Mehdi Bakhtiar Brendan Weekes Related Article in Frontiers Google Scholar PubMed Abstract Close Back to top Javascript is disabled. Please enable Javascript in your browser settings in order to see all the content on this page.