TY  - JOUR
AU  - Fiori, A.
AU  - Huber, W.
AU  - Dietrich, T.
AU  - Schnitker, R.
AU  - Shah, J. N.
AU  - Herpertz-Dahlmann, B.
AU  - Konrad, K.
TI  - Acquired dyslexia after stroke in the prereading stage: a single case treatment study with fMRI
JO  - Neurocase
VL  - 12
SN  - 1355-4794
CY  - London [u.a.]
PB  - Psychology Press
M1  - PreJuSER-57168
SP  - 252 - 262
PY  - 2006
N1  - Record converted from VDB: 12.11.2012
AB  - The authors report a treatment study of a child (CK) who suffered a left-hemisphere stroke at age 6.3 years, a few months before beginning school. Despite complete recovery of spoken language abilities, CK failed to acquire written language abilities. Neurolinguistic assessment 2 years after the stroke revealed marked impairments in working memory, deficits in acquiring a sublexical reading strategy, and a very rudimentary orthographic network. Functional imaging demonstrated activation in posterior language areas during reading of familiar words while the attempt to read unfamiliar words activated peri- and contralesional structures of the anterior language areas. It was assumed that despite sufficient neural plasticity, the acquisition of a sublexical reading strategy was prevented by severe working memory deficits. Therefore, a specific treatment intervention was developed, choosing a compensatory strategy for reading remediation. Reading development was monitored over three months before and three months after an intensive training was conducted. Data showed significant gains in reading performance only after the specific intervention. These gains remained stable in a catamnesis 2 years later.
KW  - Child
KW  - Dyslexia, Acquired: etiology
KW  - Dyslexia, Acquired: rehabilitation
KW  - Follow-Up Studies
KW  - Humans
KW  - Image Processing, Computer-Assisted
KW  - Language Tests
KW  - Language Therapy: methods
KW  - Magnetic Resonance Imaging
KW  - Male
KW  - Neuropsychological Tests: statistics & numerical data
KW  - Reading
KW  - Stroke: complications
KW  - Writing
KW  - J (WoSType)
LB  - PUB:(DE-HGF)16
C6  - pmid:17000597
UR  - <Go to ISI:>//WOS:000240749700010
DO  - DOI:10.1080/13554790600910367
UR  - https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/57168
ER  -