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Literacy, Advocacy and Agency: The Campaign for Political Recognition of Dyslexia in Britain (1962–1997)
This article charts the campaign for political recognition of dyslexia in Britain, focusing on the period from 1962 when concerted interest in the topic began. Through the Word Blind Centre for Dyslexic Children (1963–72), and the organisations that followed, it shows how dyslexia gradually came to...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7805790/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33469410 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/shm/hkz030 |
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description | This article charts the campaign for political recognition of dyslexia in Britain, focusing on the period from 1962 when concerted interest in the topic began. Through the Word Blind Centre for Dyslexic Children (1963–72), and the organisations that followed, it shows how dyslexia gradually came to be institutionalised, often in the face of government intransigence. The article shows how this process is best conceived as a complex interplay of groups, including advocates, researchers, civil servants and politicians of varying political stripes. Necessarily, the campaign was mediated through broader political, economic and social changes, including the increasing requirement for literacy in the productive worker, but it is not reducible to these factors. In this way, the article reflects on the conceptualisation of power and agency in accounts of the history of dyslexia to date and its broader relevance to the history of learning difficulties and disabilities. |
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spelling | pubmed-78057902021-01-18 Literacy, Advocacy and Agency: The Campaign for Political Recognition of Dyslexia in Britain (1962–1997) Kirby, Philip Soc Hist Med Original Articles This article charts the campaign for political recognition of dyslexia in Britain, focusing on the period from 1962 when concerted interest in the topic began. Through the Word Blind Centre for Dyslexic Children (1963–72), and the organisations that followed, it shows how dyslexia gradually came to be institutionalised, often in the face of government intransigence. The article shows how this process is best conceived as a complex interplay of groups, including advocates, researchers, civil servants and politicians of varying political stripes. Necessarily, the campaign was mediated through broader political, economic and social changes, including the increasing requirement for literacy in the productive worker, but it is not reducible to these factors. In this way, the article reflects on the conceptualisation of power and agency in accounts of the history of dyslexia to date and its broader relevance to the history of learning difficulties and disabilities. Oxford University Press 2019-03-30 /pmc/articles/PMC7805790/ /pubmed/33469410 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/shm/hkz030 Text en © The Author(s) 2019. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Society for the Social History of Medicine. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Original Articles Kirby, Philip Literacy, Advocacy and Agency: The Campaign for Political Recognition of Dyslexia in Britain (1962–1997) |
title | Literacy, Advocacy and Agency: The Campaign for Political Recognition of Dyslexia in Britain (1962–1997) |
title_full | Literacy, Advocacy and Agency: The Campaign for Political Recognition of Dyslexia in Britain (1962–1997) |
title_fullStr | Literacy, Advocacy and Agency: The Campaign for Political Recognition of Dyslexia in Britain (1962–1997) |
title_full_unstemmed | Literacy, Advocacy and Agency: The Campaign for Political Recognition of Dyslexia in Britain (1962–1997) |
title_short | Literacy, Advocacy and Agency: The Campaign for Political Recognition of Dyslexia in Britain (1962–1997) |
title_sort | literacy, advocacy and agency: the campaign for political recognition of dyslexia in britain (1962–1997) |
topic | Original Articles |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7805790/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33469410 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/shm/hkz030 |
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