2. History of cognition SLD

Learning disabilities are as old as sign communication in human society

Knowledge is related to brain research, the importance of which increases in history with the increase in the importance of education

  • In 1877, the German A. Kussmaul reported on the case of a patient who, as a result of brain damage, lost the ability to read while maintaining good intelligence.
  • at the end of the 19th century, ophthalmologists were interested in dyslexia, reading difficulties were thought to be related to special congenital visual impairment, the term word blindness was used
  • In 1896, the English physician W. P. Morgan described the case of a boy who, with normal intelligence, was unable to learn to read
  • 1896 Discovery of a developmental form of dyslexia in relation to the importance of Broc's and Wernicke's centers in the brain (aphasia)
  • 1900 publication of the first monograph on dyslexia, until the 1960s. the disorder is of particular interest to physicians
  • 1920s - American neurologist and psychiatrist Samuel Torrey Orton (1879 - 1948) created the idea of ​​dyslexia mainly as a visual-perceptual disorder. He noticed mainly problems with reversible letters (b / d, p / q). He is often called the "father of dyslexics", and was named after the worldwide dyslexic society

In Bohemia

  • 1904 psychiatrist Antonín Heveroch - used the term word blindness, published an article in the magazine Česká škola "On the unilateral inability to learn to read with excellent speech memory", where he described the case of his eleven-year-old patient
  • 1952 care at the psychiatric ward in Havlíčkův Brod
  • 1954 hospital in Dolní Počernice: Kučera, Matějček, Žlab, Šturma
  • 1962 The first "dyslexic" class in Brno
  • 1971 independent primary school for dyslexics in Karlovy Vary (H. Tymichová)
  • 70s of the 20th century. issues with the scope of PPP


Keywords:

brain injury, aphasia, speech center, word blindness