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Ricci, Leila A. – International Journal of Special Education, 2011
This study examined the reading interest and emergent literacy skills of 31 children with Down syndrome (DS) ages 7 to 13. Parents completed questionnaires on their children's interest in reading, home literacy environments, and parental beliefs about reading. Children were then assessed on their cognitive and emergent literacy skills.…
Descriptors: Children, Down Syndrome, Reading Interests, Emergent Literacy
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Petrill, Stephen A.; Deater-Deckard, Kirby; Schatschneider, Christopher; Davis, Chayna – Infant and Child Development, 2007
Evidence from intervention studies, quantitative genetic and molecular genetic studies suggests that genetic, and to a lesser extent, shared environmental influences are important to the development of reading and related cognitive skills. The Northeast-Northwest Collaborative Adoption Projects (N2CAP) is a sample of 241 adoptive families,…
Descriptors: Evidence, Genetics, Parents, Family Environment
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Bradley, Robert H.; And Others – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1977
The ability of an environmental process measure and socioeconomic status (SES) measures to predict Stanford-Binet IQ at 3 years of age was compared in a separate analysis by sex and race. The environmental process measure predicted IQ as well as a combination of process and status measures, and was superior to SES measures alone. (Author/CP)
Descriptors: Comparative Testing, Family Environment, Family Influence, Intelligence Quotient
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Carew, Jean V. – Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development, 1980
Investigates in two longitudinal, observational studies among 3-year-old children the extent to which early experience, caregiver intervention and language mastery activities are more predictive of IQ and other measures of intellectual competence than are child-initiated activities and nonlanguage-oriented experiences. (Author/RH)
Descriptors: Day Care, Early Experience, Family Environment, Intelligence Quotient