From the archive: The battle over dyslexia

The Audio Long Read

The Guardian

Society & Culture

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🗓️ 1 May 2024

⏱️ 49 minutes

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We are raiding the Guardian Long Read archives to bring you some classic pieces from years past, with new introductions from the authors. This week, from 2020: It was once a widely accepted way of explaining why some children struggled to read and write. But in recent years, some experts have begun to question the existence of dyslexia itself. By Sirin Kale. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/longreadpod

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1:37.0	The Guardian Archive I'm the author of The Battle over Dyslexia, published in September 2020. What drew me into this story was a news article I saw around 2018 and in that news article I saw that two local authorities,
1:48.6	Staffordshire and Warwickshire, had announced that they'd no longer be differentiating between children with
1:54.1	dyslexia and children without dyslexia and I thought that seemed kind of
1:58.3	interesting and then I read through the statement that the councils had put out and one line really stood out to me and it
2:06.0	was this line that read, it is widely accepted that the diagnosis of dyslexia is scientifically questionable.
2:14.8	And I'd grown up with friends and peers at my school who were dyslexic.
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