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To the Editor: Shaywitz (Jan. 29 issue)¹ claims that the "central" problem in developmental dyslexia involves "difficulty developing an awareness that words, both written and spoken, can be broken down into smaller units of sound and that, in fact, the letters constituting the printed word represent the sounds heard in the spoken word." If this is so, why do so many of the children with dyslexia that I examine write "cough" as "koff" and read "pint" to rhyme with "hint" and "mint"?

The normal reading system involves (at least) two parallel routes for assigning sound and meaning to sequences of . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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