Specific educational disability involving spelling

DYSLEXIA is the most common manifestation of specific educational disability. Occasionally i t is a fairly pure defect,’ but more often oral and written spelling, writing, drawing, and other such functions a re prominently involved.2 Relatively isolated deficits, although rare, are extremely important in giving some clues as to the nature of the abnormality or abnormalities in more usual and mixed syndromes.3 This report deals with 2 patients referred because they were unable to spell. They are of interest because the disability was relatively isolated in each.