Reading, Writing and Speech Problems in Children: A presentation of certain types of disorders in the development of the language facility
by
Samuel Torrey Orton, MD
Former Professor of Neurology and Neuropathology
Columbia University
New York: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc, 1937
Foreword
Introduction
I. Language losses in the adult as the key to the developmental disorders in children
Unilateral cerebral dominance
The aphasias
- Alexia (word blindness)
- Auditory aphasia (word deafness)
- Motor agraphia
- Motor aphasia
- Apraxia
Laterality (handedness, eyedness, etc)
Studies in laterality
Motor integrading
II. Certain disorders in the development of language in children
Description of syndromes
- Developmental alexia (the reading disability)
- Developmental agraphia (special writing disability)
- Developmental word deafness
- Developmental motor aphasia (motor speech delay)
- Developmental apraxia (abnormal clumsiness)
- Stuttering in childhood
- Combined or mixed syndromes
Hereditary factors
Emotional reactions and behavior patterns
III. Interpretation and treatment of certain disorders of language in children
Interpretation
Treatment
- Developmental alexia
- Developmental agraphia
- Developmental word deafness
- Developmental motor aphasia
- Developmental apraxia
- Stuttering in childhood
Conclusioin