Book launch: Dyslexia, A History

The event will start with a presentation of the book and its inception by Prof Maggie Snowling and Dr Philip Kirby. 

Prof Snowling will then chair a panel discussion, for which Dr Kirby will be joined by King's alumna Onyinye Udokporo, who has recently published her book Dyslexia & Me on her lived experience of dyslexia as a black woman, and Darren Clark, CEO of the charity Succeed With Dyslexia. 

They will also answer questions from the audience. 

The event will close with a book signing - by Dr Kirby and Prof Snowling as well as Ms Udokporo - and a drinks and canapés reception. 

About the book:

In this first comprehensive history of dyslexia Philip Kirby and Margaret Snowling chart a journey that begins with Victorian medicine and continues to dyslexia’s current status as the most globally recognised specific learning difficulty. In an engaging narrative style, Kirby and Snowling tell the story of dyslexia, examining its origins and revealing the many scientists, teachers, and campaigners who put it on the map. Through this history they explain current debates over the diagnosis of dyslexia and its impact on learning.

For those who have lived experience of dyslexia, professionals who have supported them, and scholars of social history, education, psychology, and childhood studies, Dyslexia reflects on the place of literacy in society – whom it has benefited, and whom it has left behind.