The Writer Who Read With His Tongue (txt) 
'Engel had suffered a stroke. It had damaged the part of his brain we use when we read, so he couldn't make sense of letters or words. He was suffering from what the French neuroscientist Stanislas Dehaene calls "word blindness." His eyes worked. He could see shapes on a page, but they made no sense to him.'
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=127745750&ps=cprs
'Engel had suffered a stroke. It had damaged the part of his brain we use when we read, so he couldn't make sense of letters or words. He was suffering from what the French neuroscientist Stanislas Dehaene calls "word blindness." His eyes worked. He could see shapes on a page, but they made no sense to him.'
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=127745750&ps=cprs
