CHILD DEVELOPMENT PEDAGOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -In 1877, Adolph Kussmaul, a German physician and the son of a German army surgeon, coined the term Wortblindheit (word-blindness).

Detailed explanation-2: -’Dyslexia’ was coined by Kussmaul’s contemporary, Rudolph Berlin, an ophthalmologist and academic, bringing the term in line with other common diagnoses of the time: alexia and paralexia (Berlin, 1883).

Detailed explanation-3: -The concept of “word-blindness” (German: “wortblindheit"), as an isolated condition, was first developed by the German physician Adolph Kussmaul in 1877.

Detailed explanation-4: -It is 130 years since the term ‘dyslexia’ was coined by Rudolf Berlin, a German ophthalmologist and professor in Stuttgart. In the course of his practice, Berlin observed the difficulties faced by some of his adult patients in reading the printed word. He could find no problem with their vision.

Detailed explanation-5: -The earliest detailed description of dyslexia that we have is from 1896 –Dr. Pringle Morgan in Sussex, England describes in his notes a bright and intelligent boy called Percy, who was ‘quick at games’ and was in no way inferior to his classmates, who simply couldn’t learn to read with any fluency. “Percy F.