Article ID: CBB954591813

Literacy, Advocacy and Agency: The Campaign for Political Recognition of Dyslexia in Britain (1962–1997) (2020)

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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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Authors & Contributors
Topham, Johnathan R.
Burkett, Jodi
Dames, Nicholas
Dawson, Gowan
Higuchi, Toshihiro
Hogan, Andrew J.
Journals
Social History of Medicine
19: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century
British Journal for the History of Science
Configurations: A Journal of Literature, Science, and Technology
Endeavour: Review of the Progress of Science
Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences
Publishers
Harvard University
Johns Hopkins University Press
Oxford University Press
Policy Press
Princeton University Press
University of Virginia Press
Concepts
Reading
Political activists and activism
Disabilities; disability; accessibility
Nuclear weapons; atomic weapons
Science and literature
Medicine
People
Hooke, Robert
Owen, Richard
Power, Henry
Time Periods
19th century
20th century, late
20th century, early
17th century
18th century
21st century
Places
Great Britain
United States
Ireland
Soviet Union
South Africa
Institutions
National Health Service (Great Britain)
Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament
Disablement Income Group (DIG)
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