Dyslexia has a fascinating history, even if it is one that has yet to be told. The first academic paper on the condition was published in the British Medical Journal in 1896 by a physician, William Pringle Morgan, and in the last fifty years there have been significant advances both in understanding its causes and in finding ways of remediating it. During the same period, people with dyslexia the parents of children who are dyslexic have campaigned for better treatment.