Reading disability due to an ocular motor disorder: A case of an adolescent girl with a previous diagnosis of dyslexia

Dyslexia is a reading disability characterized by difficulties with accurate and/or fluent word recognition, which are thought to stem from a phonological processing impairment. Herein we report the case of a 13-year-old girl who received the diagnosis of dyslexia at age 12 years. We considered this diagnosis to be incorrect because her reading difficulty was caused by a spontaneously repeated eye movement toward the vertical direction; the eyes...