Treating Form, Time and Space: e-Therapies for Acquired Disorders of Reading

Reading is seemingly effortless, yet it takes many years to learn, and the fact that we continue to add to our reading vocabulary throughout life, means that it never really stops. Skilled text reading relies on two separable but interdependent cognitive processes: word form recognition and the visuo-spatial challenge of having to fixate the majority of words that are read. These two processes are supported by anatomically distinct neural networks. When these networks are damaged by acquired or degenerative brain injury, reading can bear down in a number of different ways, we will explore these and how best to test for them.