Reconciling strong genetic and strong environmental influences on individual differences and deficits in reading ability

How Children Learn to Read: Current Issues and New Directions in the Integration of Cognition, Neurobiology and Genetics of Reading and Dyslexia Research and Practice

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 215-233

  Olson, Richard ^a   Byrne, Brian ^b   Samuelsson, Stefan ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND   (Australia)

^c LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203838006     Document Type: Chapter

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