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Dyslexia

July 2024

  • England head coach Gareth Southgate celebrates victory against Slovakia at Euro 2024 on 30 June 2024.

    Brief letters
    Can things only get better for England?

    Letters: Football and politics | Tactical voting | Dyslexia | Election jinx | Boris Johnson | Polling song | Note for the new chancellor

May 2024

  • ‘I felt like a failure… when others seemed to find it easy’: Danyah Miller.

    Self and wellbeing
    Being diagnosed with dyslexia has made me happier

  • Illustration by Nathalie Lees

    The Audio Long Read
    From the archive: The battle over dyslexia – podcast

August 2023

  • Colourful human figures of different shapes and sizes

    The future of work
    Wired differently: how neurodiversity adds new skillsets to the workplace

    From the arts to the law, employers are seeing conditions such as autism and ADHD can have more benefits than drawbacks

July 2023

  • ‘It was like [my mother] came from another planet, or another dimension’ … Judy Singer.

    The mother of neurodiversity: how Judy Singer changed the world

    In 1997 she transformed the way we think about human difference – and provided a name for a burgeoning movement

May 2023

  • 'Crown Court' TV Programme. - 1976<br>Editorial use only Mandatory Credit: Photo by ITV/REX/Shutterstock (1277086be) Richard Simpson as Colin Hunter and Terrence Hardiman as Stephen Harvesty 'Crown Court' TV Programme. - 1976 DRUNK, WHO CARES? Stanley Roberts, a crane driver, has been electrocuted and a small boy killed. It is claimed that Roberts was drunk at the time and now his employer, Colin Hunter, is charged with failing to discharge his duties under the Health, and Safety Act.

    Let’s hear it for Calibre Audio: a charity spreading joy through audiobooks

    Letter: A huge array of books is available for free to those who find reading difficult, writes Priscilla Church, many voiced by a much-missed actor

March 2023

  • Jim Rose, who is conducting an inquiry into primary education, at Sanctuary Buildings, Department for Children, Schools and Families offices, in Great Smith Street, Westminster, London. For Education

    Sir Jim Rose obituary

    Educationist whose work transformed the teaching of reading in primary schools

December 2022

  • Matt Hancock during a bushtucker trial on I'm a Celebrity … Get Me Out of Here!

    Charity urges Matt Hancock to do more to raise dyslexia awareness

    Ex-minister claimed I’m a Celebrity appearance would raise profile of his dyslexia campaign but he only fleetingly mentioned it

November 2022

  • Woman works on laptop

    Neurodivergent women sought for jobs at GCHQ and BAE Systems

  • Margaret Herrington

    Other lives
    Margaret Herrington obituary

October 2022

  • A special needs teacher specialising in dyslexia with a primary school pupil.

    Host of genes and genetic variants linked to dyslexia identified

  • Zhu Zhu, left, and Harmonie He play mother and daughter in Confetti

    Confetti review – mother goes to ends of the earth to champion dyslexic daughter

August 2022

  • Kate McKenzie seen holding a Word Window

    UK teacher’s Word Windows literacy tool sparks Microsoft trademark dispute

    Kate McKenzie from Northampton receives letter opposing name of device created for people with dyslexia

June 2022

  • . English: Italian dramatist Vittorio Alfieri and the countess of Albany Alfieri y la condesa de Albany. 1796. Alfieri e Albany<br>English: Italian dramatist Vittorio Alfieri and the countess of Albany Alfieri y la condesa de Albany. 1796. Alfieri e Albany

    Leading questions
    I’m wondering if my mother has dyslexia. Should I tell her or let things be?

    Loved ones aren’t in the position to diagnose each other, writes advice columnist Eleanor Gordon-Smith – but perhaps raise the general idea of different mental experiences

April 2022

  • Nadine Dorries

    Nadine Dorries claims dyslexia made her say ‘downstream’ films

    Culture secretary says disability makes it difficult to find the correct expression when speaking

February 2022

  • Benjamin Zephaniah

    Student loan ban will hit dyslexic people hard, says Benjamin Zephaniah

    Poet and Dragon’s Den entrepreneur Theo Paphitis join outcry against linking GCSE results to loan eligibility

January 2022

  • Jay Blades: Learning to Read at 51

    TV tonight
    TV tonight: how Jay Blades finally overcame his dyslexia

    As one of the 10% of adults affected by the condition, the charming Repair Shop host decides it’s time to read. Plus, inside Katie Prices’s ‘mucky mansion’. Here’s what to watch this evening

December 2021

  • Hundreds of people gather near a US Air Force transport plane at the international airport in Kabul, Afghanistan, in August.

    Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    Leaked letter suggests Foreign Office covered up PM’s involvement in dog airlift from Kabul, MP claims – as it happened

    Latest updates: PM denies claim from Foreign Office whistleblower

October 2021

  • Gwyn Singleton version 2

    Other lives
    Gwyn Singleton obituary

    Other lives: Pioneering specialist dyslexia teacher

April 2021

  • The GCHQ building in Cheltenham, England.

    People with dyslexia have skills that we need, says GCHQ

    UK surveillance agency says it has long valued neurodiverse analysts such as Alan Turing
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