It is unknown how often alexia, sometimes called " acquired dyslexia, " occurs.
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The understanding of Alexia, acquired dyslexia, has radically progressed from the late 19th Century.
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Acquired dyslexia or alexia may be caused by brain damage due to stroke or atrophy.
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Kussmaul also posited about the origins of alexia ( acquired dyslexia ) also known as word blindness.
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Unfortunately, little research has been done on syllabic writing systems, and " cross-linguistic studies of the acquired dyslexia and dysgraphias are scarce ."
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Castles and Coltheart describe phonological and surface types of developmental dyslexia by analogy to classical subtypes of Alexia ( acquired dyslexia ) which are classified according to the rate of errors in reading non-words.