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.    From Wordnik.com.  [Whispers Of Betrayal]

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [Roger W. Sperry - Nobel Lecture] Reference

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 in the higher cognitive faculties associated with language and symbolic processing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Roger W. Sperry - Nobel Lecture] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mind of the Child, Part II The Development of the Intellect, International Education Series Edited By William T. Harris, Volume IX.] Reference

(8, 9, 10) on these patients seemed to show from the start that the disconnected right hemisphere was by no means word-deaf as anticipated, nor either word-blind.    From Wordnik.com.  [Roger W. Sperry - Nobel Lecture] Reference