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Chengappa, Shyamala; Bhat, Sapna; Padakannaya, Prakash – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2004
Reading and writing deficits in two multilingual speakers of Kannada, Hindi and English are described. Disorders of the two patients (Mr G and Ms S) had different etiologies. Mr G had severe alexia with agraphia in English as well as in Kannada and Hindi. Ms S exhibited dissociation across the languages, showing symptoms of surface dyslexia in…
Descriptors: Reading Skills, Writing Skills, Multilingualism, Aphasia