What is word blindness?
“Word blindness” is an old-fashioned term used to mean that a person is unable to recognize and understand words that he sees. This was the term used to describe dyslexia when it was first described by doctors about one hundred years ago. It is sometimes still used to describe the symptoms of a person who cannot remember the order and sequence of letters in a word from one time to the next. That is, even after intensive study and drill, the student is unable to recognize the word. In our experience, this apparent severe dyslexia is caused by disorientation, which for dyslexic people means that they have an innacurate perception of the words. That is, they might see the letters of the words jumbled around in all sorts of different ways. There is no way that a dyslexic person who suffers from this sort of disorientation can ever remember a word, because the word seems different every time they look at it. Fortunately, we can can correct this problem of distorted perceptions quickly with
