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From the turn of the century until the 1950s, it was commonly understood that dyslexia was a biologically determined condition. Perceptional and neurological anomalies were centrally featured in theories on the disorder. In the 1950s and 1960s it became increasingly common to attribute reading and writing difficulties to inadequate or incomplete education.
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Tønnessen, F.E., Uppstad, P.H. (2015). Challenges in Cognitive Psychology. In: Can We Read Letters?. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-956-2_2
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