ABSTRACT
A common proviso has been that in at least some of these patients the operation of the "phonological reading" procedure is itself impaired although to a lesser degree than is the process of reading aloud mediated by semantics. This chapter assesses which of the theories best explains the evidence from phonological reading in acquired dyslexia. A wide range of reading patterns are subsumed by the term "phonological reading." The reading of patients already reported in the literature differs very considerably. In all the patients being considered there is evidence that reading aloud by means of the semantic system is grossly impaired. The chapter argues that surface dyslexia as originally described is best understood as the result of an analogous compensatory procedure. The characteristics of the reading of these word-form type-II patients, like those of the type-I patients, depend heavily on abnormal compensatory procedures.
