Surface Dyslexia and Dysgraphia: How Are They Manifested in Japanese?

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In certain cases of dyslexia in speakers of Indo-European languages, orthographically regular words are more likely to be read aloud correctly than irregular words. Japanese is written in a mixture of two scripts, the ideographic kanji script and the syllabic kana script; a brief description of the characteristics of this dual-writing system is found in Sasanuma and Morton & Sasanuma. The subject S. U., a 46-year-old qualified interior designer with 14 years of education, was first seen at the Tokyo Metropolitan Geriatric Hospital in May 1981. The subject S. U., a 46-year-old qualified interior designer with 14 years of education, was first seen at the Tokyo Metropolitan Geriatric Hospital in May 1981. The kanji version of the test employed a set of 20 single-character "concrete" nouns and another set of 20 single-character "abstract" nouns. The test consisted of 40 kana function words, two to four characters in length. They included conjunctions, interrogative words, particles, demonstratives, and others.

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