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strephosymbolia Psychol.|ˌstrɛfəʊsɪmˈbəʊlɪə|
[mod.L., f. Gr. στρέϕειν to turn, twist + σύµβολ-ον (see symbol n.1) + -ia1.]
(See quot. 1937.)
1925S. T. Orton in Arch. Neurol. & Psychiatry (Chicago) XIV. 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― Reading, Writing & Speech Problems 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. 1968E. 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. |