Classification

Deep dyslexia is mainly characterised by the occurrence of semantic reading errors or semantic paralexias when reading aloud (e.g. view → “scene). Other characteristics of deep dyslexia include visual errors (eg. thing → “think”) and deviational errors (e.g. alcohol → alcoholic) as well as poor reading of function words, more difficulty reading abstract than concrete and highly imaginable words, a complete inability to read non-words, severe impairments when writing to diction and writing spontaneously, and in many cases an impairment in short term memory, or digit span.