Word: strephosymbolia
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...waiver of the foreign language requirement, instituted eight years ago, excuses student with pertinent physiological disabilities from language courses. The waiver is aimed at aiding those with a specific reading disability called strephosymbolia, and also those with an auditory discrimination handicap...
Kenneth T. Dinklage, a UHS psychologist, says that strephosymbolia manifests itself in a student's tendency to reverse syllables or letters of words while reading, or to perceive a letter as its mirror image. That is, he may read "was" for "saw" and may see "b" for "d." There is also an inclination to confuse right and left. Dinklage gives an example of a quarterback with strephosymbolia who frequently wiped out his own backfield as he ran the opposite way from a play he himself had called...
...requirement waivers, in order to insure the legitimacy of a student's claim. If a student does poorly on the Foreign Language Placement Test, he is automatically given the Modern Language Aptitude Test to reveal the possible presence of language learning disabilities. If the test indicates the possibility of strephosymbolia or an auditory discrimination problem, he is interviewed by a UHS psychologist who determines whether a waiver is in order...