IQ of four-year-olds who go on to develop dyslexia

Journal of Learning Disabilities

Volumn 47, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 475-484

  van Bergen, Elsje ^a,b   de Jong, Peter F ^a   Maassen, Ben ^c   Krikhaar, Evelien ^d   Plakas, Anna ^a   van der Leij, Aryan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^d RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Arithmetic; Dyslexia; Familial risk; IQ; Reading

Indexed keywords

ACHIEVEMENT; APTITUDE TEST; CHILD; COMORBIDITY; DYSCALCULIA; DYSLEXIA; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETICS; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE; LEARNING; MALE; NETHERLANDS; PHONETICS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PSYCHOLOGY; READING; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEMANTICS;

ACHIEVEMENT; APTITUDE TESTS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMORBIDITY; DYSCALCULIA; DYSLEXIA; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; INTELLIGENCE; MALE; NETHERLANDS; PHONETICS; READING; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEMANTICS; VERBAL LEARNING;

EID: 84901827499     PISSN: 00222194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0022219413479673     Document Type: Article

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