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Alexia: what happens when a brain injury makes you forget how to read

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imagePatients with alexia – or acquired dyslexia – can recognise letters but not words. Letters via B Calkins/www.shutterstock.com

Once we have successfully learned how to read, it continues to be easy for most of us. But for some people it can be an immense challenge. In developmental dyslexia, the process of learning to read is disrupted,...

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