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Record Nr.

UNINA9910774889103321

Autore

Kirby J. Philip

Titolo

Dyslexia : a history / / Philip Kirby and Margaret J. Snowling

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Montreal, Quebec : , : McGill-Queen's University Press, , [2022]

©2022

ISBN

0-2280-1540-5

0-2280-1539-1

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (277 pages)

Disciplina

618.928553

Soggetti

Dyslexia

Dyslexia - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front Matter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- What's in a Word? Dyslexia in Historical Perspective -- Foundations -- Dyslexia Discovered: Word-Blindness, Victorian Medicine, and Education (1877–1917) -- Dyslexia Goes Global: Psychology, Childhood, and Trans-Atlanticism (1925–48) -- Evidence -- Dyslexia Discussed: The Foundation and Work of the Word Blind Centre (1962–72) -- Researching Dyslexia: From the Discrepancy Definition to Cognitive Neuroscience (1964–2009) -- Recognition: The Example of Britain -- Tackling Dyslexia: Class, Gender, and the Construction of a Dyslexia Infrastructure (1962–97) -- Dyslexia Legislated: Literacy, Policy, and the Achievement of Official Status (1962–2010) -- Legacies -- Dyslexia Today and Tomorrow: Discourses of Dyslexia in the Twenty-First Century -- Conclusion -- Timeline: Fifty Key Dates -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

This first comprehensive history of dyslexia charts a journey that begins with Victorian medicine and continues to dyslexia becoming the most globally recognized specific learning difficulty. Philip Kirby and Margaret Snowling use a historical lens to explain current debates around dyslexia, and to reflect on the place of literacy in society.