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Adolf Kussamaul was a neurologist who coined the term "word blindness." It refered to deficits with reading while vision, cognition and speech remained intact.
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Rudolph Berlin uses the word "dyslexia" to talk about reading problems. He states it is difficulty deconding written text or symbols.
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First U.S. report of childhood reading difficulties published.
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Samuel Kirk uses the term "learning disability" at a conference.
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The term "handicap" is replaced by the term "disability" under IDEA.
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Functional MRI was used to identify regions of the brain that respond differently in dyslexic individuals.
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Researchers at Yale University identify a gene that had characteristics strongly associated with dyslexia.
