Exploring how nature and nurture affect the development of reading: An analysis of the florida twin project on reading

Developmental Psychology

Volumn 49, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 1971-1981

  Hart, Sara A ^a   Logan, Jessica A R ^b   Soden Hensler, Brooke ^b   Kershaw, Sarah ^a   Taylor, Jeanette ^c   Schatschneider, Christopher ^a  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Early reading development; Genetics; Growth; Oral reading fluency; Simplex

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; DIZYGOTIC TWINS; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; GENOTYPE ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; HUMAN; MALE; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS; PHENOTYPE; PHYSIOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; READING; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICS; TWINS;

CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; GENE-ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; HUMANS; MALE; PHENOTYPE; READING; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; TWINS, DIZYGOTIC; TWINS, MONOZYGOTIC;

EID: 84884933119     PISSN: 00121649     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0031348     Document Type: Article

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