Defining and Understanding Dyslexia: Past, Present and Future
Oxford Review of Education ISSN: (Print) (Online) Journal homepage: https://www.tandfonline.com/loi/core20 Defining and understanding dyslexia: past, present and future Margaret J. Snowling, Charles Hulme & Kate Nation To cite this article: Margaret J. Snowling, Charles Hulme & Kate Nation (2020) Defining and understanding dyslexia: past, present and future, Oxford Review of Education, 46:4, 501-513, DOI: 10.1080/03054985.2020.1765756 To link to this article: https://doi.org/10.1080/03054985.2020.1765756 © 2020 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. Published online: 13 Aug 2020. Submit your article to this journal Article views: 13656 View related articles View Crossmark data Citing articles: 10 View citing articles Full Terms & Conditions of access and use can be found at https://www.tandfonline.com/action/journalInformation?journalCode=core20 OXFORD REVIEW OF EDUCATION 2020, VOL. 46, NO. 4, 501–513 https://doi.org/10.1080/03054985.2020.1765756 Defining and understanding dyslexia: past, present and future Margaret J. Snowling a, Charles Hulmeb and Kate Nationc aDepartment of Experimental Psychology and St John’s College, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK; bDepartment of Education, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK; cDepartment of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK ABSTRACT KEYWORDS Dyslexia is a difficulty in learning to decode (read aloud) and to spell. Dyslexia; reading disorder; DSM5 classifies dyslexia as one form of neurodevelopmental disorder. reading difficulties; history; Neurodevelopmental disorders are heritable, life-long conditions definition with early onset. For many years, research on dyslexia proceeded on the basis that it was a specificlearningdifficulty – specificmeaning that the difficulty could not be explained in terms of obvious causes such as sensory problems or general learning difficulties (low IQ).
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