The dyslexia ecosystem

Roderick I. Nicolson

doi:10.1002/dys.218

The dyslexia ecosystem

Roderick I. Nicolson^*

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Psychology

University of Sheffield

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Abstract

It is all too easy, in everyday interactions in dyslexia, to see the interactions in a semi-adversarial fashion - parents competing to get more support for children, researchers competing to get more support for their theories, schools trying to get more money for their programmes. Such a set of analyses may be described as 'zero-sum'. If one party gains, the other one loses. If, by contrast, one views the dyslexia community as a complex, inter-dependent 'ecosystem', a much more positive view emerges. It becomes clear that there are solutions for the system as a whole that are in a sense optimal for the system as a whole, solutions that are 'win-win', that is, all parties gain and none lose. In this article I develop this concept of the 'dyslexia ecosystem', and outline targets that would lead to progress for the ecosystem as a whole.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	55-66
Number of pages	12
Journal	Dyslexia
Volume	8
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1002/dys.218
Publication status	Published - 1 Apr 2002

Keywords

Automaticity
Dyslexia
Ecosystems
Phonology
Resources

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