Yvonne Griffiths

My interest in dyslexia began 30 years ago, researching factors to explain the observed variation in the literacy profiles of children identified with dyslexia (University of York). I have worked on scientific reviews of evidence to inform global education policy makers on literacy assessment, identification, and intervention. As the senior research scientist at the DCSF in 2008-9, I worked with the late Sir Jim Rose and his Expert Advisory Group, collecting and synthesising the evidence informing his 2009 independent dyslexia review (UCL IOE), listening to the voices of children and young people withith lived experience of dyslexia, parents and