Moving the literacy and dyslexia debates forward: Promoting reading for all

This special edition of Educational and Child Psychology: Literacy Assessment and Intervention brings together a selection of articles relevant to theory and practice issues in relation to literacy and literacy difficulties. In this extended editorial we aim to outline the trajectory of issues, understandings and approaches to literacy and related difficulties over time. This includes a review of the historical context all the way through to the current British Psychological Society (BPS)’s Division of Educational and Child Psychologists (DECP) Literacy Working Group on Literacy and Literacy Difficulties. The BPS DECP group is in the process of developing updated guidance for the educational psychology (EP) profession. This is in response to evolving theoretical models of reading development and reading difficulties, and associated developments in assessment and intervention.