ABSTRACT
This chapter describes a patient whose reading errors were mainly phonological in nature and argues that the oral reading pattern is due to a functional lesion occurring at a later stage than the level of visual word recognition. Surface dyslexia and deep dyslexia—both originally described as patterns of reading errors—were used as prototypes for the description of processes of reading. According to the standard interpretation of surface dyslexia words are read as if they were nonsense syllables, that is, without semantic access via orthography. The patient's writing from dictation resembles those of other cases with surface dysgraphia. The factor "onset of testing period after accident" fits the tentatively proposed hypothesis about surface dysgraphia as a possible compensatory strategy. The patients' individual performances will be discussed only with reference to phonological reading. It should thus be pointed out that some patients match pseudowords better than they read them.
