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Why Orton was right

Why Orton was right Norman Geschwind, M.D. Harvard Medical School Massachusetts Institute of Technology Beth Israel Hospital Boston, Massachusetts Two years ago, at the annual meeting of this Society, I was approached .by someone who told me that she was distressed to discover that The Orton Society "had now adopted the medical model and had abandoned what should have been its major interest," i.e., the re-education of the dyslexic child. ! replied with two statements. The first was that I had seen no evidence at all that the Society had given up its interest in developing training programs for the dyslexic, and, indeed, it is clear both from the program of that meeting and the program of this one that most of the presentations are devoted to this very topic. My second answer was that, after all, this was The Orton Dyslexia Society, and that if one were aware of just what Samuel Torrey Orton had said and done, it would become immediately obvi- ous why The Orton Dyslexia Society had decided to devote a portion of its energy to the study of the brain. It is fascinating to reconstruct the history of the awakening of Dr. Presented as a Luncheon Lecture at http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Annals of Dyslexia Springer Journals

Why Orton was right

Geschwind, Norman
Annals of Dyslexia , Volume 32 (1): 18 – Jan 1, 1982
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Springer Journals
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1982 The Orton Dyslexia Society
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0736-9387
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1934-7243
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10.1007/BF02647951
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Norman Geschwind, M.D. Harvard Medical School Massachusetts Institute of Technology Beth Israel Hospital Boston, Massachusetts Two years ago, at the annual meeting of this Society, I was approached .by someone who told me that she was distressed to discover that The Orton Society "had now adopted the medical model and had abandoned what should have been its major interest," i.e., the re-education of the dyslexic child. ! replied with two statements. The first was that I had seen no evidence at all that the Society had given up its interest in developing training programs for the dyslexic, and, indeed, it is clear both from the program of that meeting and the program of this one that most of the presentations are devoted to this very topic. My second answer was that, after all, this was The Orton Dyslexia Society, and that if one were aware of just what Samuel Torrey Orton had said and done, it would become immediately obvi- ous why The Orton Dyslexia Society had decided to devote a portion of its energy to the study of the brain. It is fascinating to reconstruct the history of the awakening of Dr. Presented as a Luncheon Lecture at

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Published: Jan 1, 1982

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