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History Of Dyslexia Research
The history of dyslexia research spans from the late 1800s to the present. Pre-1900 The concept of "word-blindness" (''German'': "wortblindheit"), as an isolated condition, was first developed by the German physician Adolph Kussmaul in 1877. Identified by Oswald Berkhan in 1881, the term 'dyslexia' was later coined in 1887 by Rudolf Berlin, an ophthalmologist practicing in Stuttgart, Germany. Rudolf Berlin used the term dyslexia to describe partial reading loss in an adult patient. The word is drawn from the Greek language, Greek prefix δυσ- (''dus-''), "hard, bad, difficult" + λέξις (''lexis''), "speech, word". He used the term to refer to a case of a young boy who had a severe impairment in learning to read and write in spite of showing typical intellectual and physical abilities in all other respects. In 1896, W. Pringle Morgan, a British physician, from Seaford, East Sussex published a description of a reading-specific learning disorder in a report to the British ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adolf Kussmaul
Adolph Kußmaul (german: Carl Philipp Adolf Konrad Kußmaul; 22 February 1822 – 28 May 1902) was a German physician and a leading clinician of his time. He was born as the son and grandson of physicians at Graben near Karlsruhe and studied at Heidelberg. He entered the army after graduation and spent two years as an army surgeon. This was followed by a period as a general practitioner before he went to Würzburg to study for his doctorate under Virchow. He was subsequently Professor of Medicine at Heidelberg (1857), Erlangen (1859), Freiburg (1859) and Straßburg (1876). Beyond his medical skills he was also active in literature. He is regarded as one of the creators of the term Biedermeier. He died in Heidelberg. Eponymous terms His name continues to be used in eponyms. He described two medical signs and one disease which have eponymous names that remain in use: * Kussmaul breathing - Very deep and labored breathing with normal, rapid or reduced frequency seen in severe Diab ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
