The effect of parents' literacy skills and children's preliteracy skills on the risk of dyslexia

Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology

Volumn 42, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 1187-1200

  Van Bergen, Elsje ^a,b   De Jong, Peter F ^b   Maassen, Ben ^c   Van Der Leij, Aryan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Arithmetic; Dyslexia; Familial risk (FR); Intergenerational; Longitudinal; Parent child resemblance; Reading

Indexed keywords

CHILD; CHILD PARENT RELATION; DYSLEXIA; FAMILY HEALTH; FEMALE; GENETICS; HUMAN; LINGUISTICS; MALE; NETHERLANDS; PARENT; PHONETICS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PSYCHOLOGY; READING; RISK FACTOR; SHORT TERM MEMORY; WRITING;

CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DYSLEXIA; FAMILY HEALTH; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; NETHERLANDS; PARENT-CHILD RELATIONS; PARENTS; PHONETICS; READING; RISK FACTORS; VOCABULARY; WRITING;

EID: 84907219244     PISSN: 00910627     EISSN: 15732835     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10802-014-9858-9     Document Type: Article

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