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Määttä, Sira; Laakso, Marja-Leena; Tolvanen, Timo Ahonen Asko; Westerholm, Jari; Aro, Tuija – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2016
Purpose: This longitudinal study examined the development of prelinguistic skills and the continuity of communication and language from the prelinguistic stage to school age. Method: Prelinguistic communication of 427 Finnish children was followed repeatedly from 6 to 18 months of age (n = 203-322 at ages 6, 9, 12, 15, and 18 months), and its…
Descriptors: Followup Studies, Infants, Young Children, Foreign Countries
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Manderbacka, Kristiina; And Others – Journal of Marriage and the Family, 1992
Examined association between mother's marital status and perinatal outcome among single births in Finland in 1987 (n=56,595 infants). Found that perinatal deaths, low birthweight, and preterm infants were more common among single mothers than among married mothers. Results for cohabiting mothers were more similar to those of married than to those…
Descriptors: Birth Weight, Cohabitation, Foreign Countries, Infants
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Lyytinen, H.; Ahonen, T.; Eklund, K.; Guttorm, T.; Kulju, P.; Laakso, M. -L.; Leiwo, M.; Leppanen, P.; Lyytinen, P.; Poikkeus, A.-M.; Richardson, U.; Torppa, M.; Viholainen, H. – Dyslexia, 2004
We review the main findings of the Jyvaskyla of Dyslexia (JLD) which follows the development of children at familial risk for dyslexia (N = 107) and their controls (N = 93). We will illustrate the development of these two groups of children at ages from birth to school entry in the skill domains that have been connected to reading and reading…
Descriptors: Dyslexia, Predictor Variables, Identification, Child Development