title: The dyslexia ecosystem.
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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, University of Sheffield, Western Bank, UK.
authors.forename: Roderick I
authors.initials: RI
authors.lastname: Nicolson
mesh_terms: D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D003695:Delivery of Health Care / Q000191:economics; D004410:Dyslexia / Q000191:economics* / Q000628:therapy*; D004519:Education, Special / Q000191:economics; D006295:Health Resources / Q000191:economics / Q000458:organization & administration; D006801:Humans; D011582:Psychological Theory; D012106:Research / Q000191:economics* / Q000592:standards; D016896:Treatment Outcome