Other Views of Dyslexia in the UK

Simon Garfield interviews John Stein, Wendy Fisher, visits the IDA's annual convention  and reports on Ned Hallowell's speech there; a similar meeting in London by Dyslexia Action;  inteviews Shirley Cramer, who said

The best thing about this, Cramer says, was that the discovery of the genetic components to dyslexia meant an end to people she calls 'the dyslexia deniers', or at least this was her experience in the US. In the UK she says she still meets head teachers 'who say it doesn't exist, that children are just being lazy'. She still hears it referred to as 'the middle-class disease', 'because middle-class parents have the wherewithal to complain until something is done. If you have something wrong, it's quite right you try to correct it, and they certainly shouldn't be pilloried for that. That's why you need a systematic method of picking up all the kids.'