Is it time to rethink dyslexia?

Declared cases are multiplying, but the diagnosis still lacks scientific rigour, argues Julian Elliott

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March 6, 2014
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June 10, 2015

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There are two inter-related and conflated issues here. The description and the explanation of a particular mind-body capability, ostensibly confined to reading/writing (orthography/cartography). I am assuming few contest that such a condition exists. However labeling the incapability dyslexia and describing it as a neuro-developmental disorder does not constitute an explanation in any scientific or meaningful sense. It will be interesting to see whether the authors of The Dyslexia Debate incur the same wrath, invective, abuse and dismissal as MP Graham Stringer invoked on the publication of his Dyslexia is a myth (see http://www.manchesterconfidential.co.uk/News/Dyslexia-is-a-myth) His confidential column on literacy, crime, dyslexia and wasted money was published as long ago as 12th Jan 2009, and nothing has changed since. Indeed it is difficult to see how any book can change anything when there are so many vested interests involved in the 'Business of Dyslexia'. One only has to consider the number of professional and civil list honours awarded to those for services to dyslexia to realize the enormity of the Kuhnian structural paradigm shift that has to occur before the primary cause of such difficulties are acknowledged: a mis-match between the adept and the writing hand! See Dr Sattler's work at http://www.linkshaender-beratung.de/english/index.htm

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