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Surface Dyslexia

A Surface Dyslexia is a developmental or acquired dyslexia, which is a reading disorder characterized by impaired whole-word reading, but preserved phonological skills.

So it is a form of reading disability in which a person retains the ability to name nonwords but not words.

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