Language development, literacy skills, and predictive connections to reading in finnish children with and without familial risk for dyslexia

Journal of Learning Disabilities

Volumn 43, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 308-321

  Torppa, Minna ^a   Lyytinen, Paula ^a   Erskine, Jane ^a   Eklund, Kenneth ^a   Lyytinen, Heikki ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ   (Finland)

Author keywords

Dyslexia; Early language development; Longitudinal study; Reading development

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; DYSLEXIA; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; FINLAND; GENETICS; HUMAN; INFANT; INTELLIGENCE TEST; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LANGUAGE TEST; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; NEWBORN; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; READING; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SPEECH DISORDER; ARTICULATION DISORDERS; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PSYCHOLOGY;

ARTICULATION DISORDERS; CHILD OF IMPAIRED PARENTS; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DYSLEXIA; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; FINLAND; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INTELLIGENCE TESTS; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LANGUAGE TESTS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; READING; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 77954005747     PISSN: 00222194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0022219410369096     Document Type: Article

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