Peripheral Vision in Persons with Dyslexia

Abstract

ASIDE from their difficulty in reading, dyslexic perL sons do not differ much from normal readers in terms of their results on tests of what they see or how well they see. The impression is that dyslexia is a disability in interpreting what is seen rather than in acquiring the visual information.1 We have observed marked differences between normal readers and dyslexies in the relation of foveal to peripheral vision. These differences suggest that the two groups do not have the same general perceptual strategy. However, the strategies are mutable, because when dyslexies do learn to read well, the relations . . .