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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.

Dyslexia. --- Dyslexia --- History. --- Developmental dyslexia --- Word-blindness, Partial --- Language disorders --- Reading disability --- Alexia --- education. --- history of dyslexia. --- history of education. --- neurodivergency. --- word-blindness.