alexia

Alexie is the French neologism from which the concept of alexia emanates. However, it is fair and necessary to emphasize the fact that it, for its part, has its etymological origin in Greek. And it is that this language took the two parts that compose it: the prefix "a" which means "without" and the term "legein" which comes to be translated as "read" and "diction".

Therefore, sticking to that formation of words, it can be said that alexia is the impossibility that a person has to read.

The alexia is characterized by inability to read texts and occurs as a result of an injury to the brain area. It is about the loss of reading ability when it had already been acquired. When the specialist diagnoses it, he usually also detects a picture of agrafia, that is to say, of a notorious lack of the ability to write even when the person he keeps his language and understands what is being said to him.

On 1881, the neurologist of French nationality Joseph Jules Dejerine (1849-1917) was able to determine that those who suffer from both alexia and agrafia cannot identify the terms that are spelled out to them or spell a certain word themselves.

Various investigations have shown that in childhood the prospect of recovery is greater in relation to adulthood when a brain injury occurs, a situation that seems to confirm the hypothesis that the right hemisphere of the smallest have skills to carry out language functions if there is damage to the left hemisphere.

Faced with alexia, therapists recommend performing simple exercises based on proposing to join different letters (from, for example, a consonant followed by a vowel) and, when the child has mastered this process, move on to more complex exercises that contemplate structures of the auditory-vowel type.

Specifically, those skilled in the art determine that there are three different types of alexia. Thus, first of all, we should talk about the so-called alexia without spelling, also called pure. This is the one that has a person who has an absolute inability to read but who, nevertheless, does not have a deficit in what is writing.

Secondly, there is alexia with agraph or central, which is defined by the fact that the individual who suffers from it has lost all capacity for both reading and writing.

And finally we have the frontal alexia, which is the one that affects what is the central lobe of the brain. This means that the person in question has very poor spelling, has trouble identifying words and is also likely to suffer from profound dyslexia. In this case, it is recommended as a treatment to start with simple letter exercises and then, little by little, introduce more complicated tasks.

On the other hand, Alexia It is also the name of an Italian singer born on May 19, 1967, who achieved great success in the 1990s with his songs in English. From 2002, began to stand out with songs sung in his native language.

Finally, it can be mentioned Alexia ashford, a fictional character created for the video game Resident Evil Code: Veronica. She is the matriarch of the last generation of the Ashford.