Dictionary of British Education
Defined by the World Federation of Neurology in 1968 as ‘a disorder in children who, despite conventional classroom experience, fail to attain the language skills in reading, writing and spelling, commensurate and with their intellectual abilities’.
In the UK, some doubt has been expressed on whether a clearly defined syndrome exists. The Bullock Report rejected the term and the Warnock Report preferred the use of a more general term, ‘children with special learning difficulties.’ However, it is believed that one in ten children in British schools suffers from some kind of dyslexia. A recent American study suggests that children between eight and ten with serious dyslexia could successfully achieve higher grades in reading if individual teaching programmes and lessons, on a one-to-one basis, were available for two months.
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