74 cases of kernicterus followed at C. P. Diagnostic Clinic at Univ. of Calif. Med. Center, San Francisco, seem to show a number of aphasoid signs in this particular group. A history of these children shows they are markedly jaundiced early, are poor feeders, quite irritable, and quickly develop opisthotonus. The child is slow in motor development and body control is very poor with arms moving about aimlessly. There is difficulty in visual supraversion and frequently a delay in lateral visual movement. Dysarthria of varying degree is usually present. The author speculates that perhaps some of the 80% of the kernicterus cases who have been reported as deaf or hard of hearing might possibly be aphasoid in type.