Dyslexia : developing the debate /

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Author / Creator:Elliott, Julian, 1955- author.
Imprint:London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2016.
Description:x, 207 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language:English
Series:Key debates in educational policy
Key debates in educational policy.
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10811035
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Other authors / contributors:Nicolson, Rod, author.
ISBN:9781474233750
1474233759
9781474233736
1474233732
9781474233743
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:"Dyslexia is often presented as a clearly delineated condition that can be diagnosed on the basis of appropriate cognitive tests with corresponding forms on intervention. However, this approachable text explores the issues behind this assertion in bringing together leading figures in the field to debate dyslexia. Julian Elliott shows that understandings and usage of the dyslexia label vary substantially with little consensus or agreement and in putting forward his critique draws upon research in several disciplinary fields to demonstrate the irrationality of these arguments. Roderick I. Nicolson demonstrates that current approaches to understanding, identification and support of dyslexia are catastrophically flawed in terms of their failure to consider the developmental nature of dyslexia. He develops two themes: first that the underlying cause of dyslexia is 'delayed neural commitment' for skills and neural circuits, and second that the cause of the reading disability is the introduction of formal instruction before the dyslexic child's neural circuits for executive function are sufficiently developed. He argues that a more effective and cost-effective approach to identification and support involves 'assessment for dyslexia' rather than 'of dyslexia'. Elliott and Nicolson respond to the points each other raise before Andrew Davis investigates how far the key claims of Elliott and Nicolson can withstand close conceptual investigation, and explores the inherent limitations of scientific research on this topic, given the value and conceptual issues concerned"--

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520 |a "Dyslexia is often presented as a clearly delineated condition that can be diagnosed on the basis of appropriate cognitive tests with corresponding forms on intervention. However, this approachable text explores the issues behind this assertion in bringing together leading figures in the field to debate dyslexia. Julian Elliott shows that understandings and usage of the dyslexia label vary substantially with little consensus or agreement and in putting forward his critique draws upon research in several disciplinary fields to demonstrate the irrationality of these arguments. Roderick I. Nicolson demonstrates that current approaches to understanding, identification and support of dyslexia are catastrophically flawed in terms of their failure to consider the developmental nature of dyslexia. He develops two themes: first that the underlying cause of dyslexia is 'delayed neural commitment' for skills and neural circuits, and second that the cause of the reading disability is the introduction of formal instruction before the dyslexic child's neural circuits for executive function are sufficiently developed. He argues that a more effective and cost-effective approach to identification and support involves 'assessment for dyslexia' rather than 'of dyslexia'. Elliott and Nicolson respond to the points each other raise before Andrew Davis investigates how far the key claims of Elliott and Nicolson can withstand close conceptual investigation, and explores the inherent limitations of scientific research on this topic, given the value and conceptual issues concerned"--  |c Provided by publisher. 
505 8 |a Notes on contributors -- Series editor's preface: Key debates in educational policy / Christopher Winch -- Introduction / Andrew Davis -- 1. Developmental dyslexia: The bigger picture / Rod Nicolson -- 2. Dyslexia: beyond the debate / Julian Elliott -- 3. Response to Julian Elliott / Rod Nicolson -- 4. Response to Rod Nicolson / Julian Elliott -- Afterword: some philosophical reflections / Andrew Davis -- References -- Index. 
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