Dyslexia
Subtitle: the government of reading
By: Tom Campbell, University of Leeds
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2013
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 242
ISBN-13: 9781137297921
Subjects: Dyslexia; History; Government policy; PSYCHOLOGY / General; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General; SOCIAL SCIENCE / People with Disabilities
Description: "The diagnosis of 'Dyslexia' and the medical problematisation of reading difficulties were almost unknown one hundred years ago, yet today the British Dyslexia Association estimates that up to ten per cent of the UK population may have some form of dyslexia, with numbers in the United States estimated to be as high as twenty per cent.  The Government of Reading investigates how this problematisation developed and how a diagnostic category was shaped in response to this"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-239) and index.