Usage examples (5)

• In many ways, it had been the making of him — as it had other word-blind people, like Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Edison, Nelson Rockefeller.
• Again, such cases seem to tell us that word comprehension is confined to the left hemisphere and that the spared right hemisphere must be word-deaf, as well as word-blind.
• The minor hemisphere in addition to being unable to talk, and unable to write, and word-deaf and word-blind, was inferred by extrapolation to be typically lacking also...
• He is like the patients that Kussmaul calls "word-blind," who can not, in spite of good sight, read the written words they see, but can express them in speech and writing.