There is hope for patients suffering from 'word blindness' - a rare neurological condition where a patient can write and understand the spoken word but is unable to read. Scientists at Loyola University Medical Centre in Chicago Illinois have invented a technique that enables such patients to read again. To see how this technique works the researchers took a 40-year-old kindergarten teacher and reading specialist suffering from 'word blindness' - medically termed as 'alexia without agraphia'. (Read: 'Manufactured' cornea can now revolutionize treatment for the blind!) When shown a word the patient looked at the first letter. Although she clearly
