Series III: morphemic dyslexia

The previous chapter presented data for eight subjects in whom reading processes functioned relatively efficiently. The cases gave evidence of phonological effects on accuracy or translation time and of anomalies in the visual processor. These results confirmed that the establishment of efficient morphemic processes was possible in the context of an impaired visual processor or an impaired grapheme-phoneme translator. Some of the cases exhibited a more complex pattern in which visual or phonological effects were accompanied by evidence of a morphemic impairment. According to the arguments presented, these effects should be viewed as independent impairments and not as direct consequences of the visual or phonological disturbances.