When Dyslexia Was Called 'Word Blindness'

Psychology Today | 02.10.2026 04:58
October is Dyslexia Awareness Month, making it a good time to revisit an intriguing chapter in the history of language and the brain: how the medical profession came to understand dyslexia. What began as a puzzling disconnect between vision and reading would eventually reveal that reading is far more than simply seeing words on a page.