The genetic and environmental etiologies of individual differences in early reading growth in Australia, the United States, and Scandinavia

Journal of Experimental Child Psychology

Volumn 115, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 453-467

  Christopher, Micaela E ^a   Hulslander, Jacqueline ^a   Byrne, Brian ^b,c   Samuelsson, Stefan ^c   Keenan, Janice M ^d   Pennington, Bruce ^d   DeFries, John C ^a   Wadsworth, Sally J ^a   Willcutt, Erik ^a   Olson, Richard K ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND   (Australia)

^c LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^d UNIVERSITY OF DENVER   (United States)

Author keywords

Cross linguistic; Early reading comprehension development; Early word reading development; Genetic; Individual differences; Twins

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; DIZYGOTIC TWINS; FEMALE; HUMAN; INDIVIDUALITY; MALE; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; READING; SCANDINAVIA; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; TWINS; UNITED STATES;

AUSTRALIA; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIVIDUALITY; MALE; READING; SCANDINAVIA; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; TWINS, DIZYGOTIC; TWINS, MONOZYGOTIC; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84877346253     PISSN: 00220965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jecp.2013.03.008     Document Type: Article

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