Assessment of neglect dyslexia with functional reading materials.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Spatial neglect is a neurocognitive disorder that affects perception, representation, and/or motor planning. Neglect dyslexia in spatial neglect after right hemisphere damage may co-occur with, or be dissociated from, other spatial neglect signs. Previous neglect dyslexia research focused on word-level stimuli and reading errors. Using single words for assessment may leave some people with neglect dyslexia undiagnosed, and assessment materials that are closer to texts read in real life may better capture neglect dyslexia.

Method

The authors tested reading in 67 right hemisphere stroke survivors with 4 types of text materials: words, phrases, an article, and a menu.

Results

Accuracy on reading the menu and article texts was significantly poorer than reading

SUBMITTER: Galletta EE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3929236 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Jan-Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature