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Language Development, Literacy Skills, and Predictive Connections to Reading in Finnish Children with and without Familial Risk for Dyslexia
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Torppa, Minna; Lyytinen, Paula; Erskine, Jane; Eklund, Kenneth; Lyytinen, Heikki – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2010
Discriminative language markers and predictive links between early language and literacy skills were investigated retrospectively in the Jyvaskyla Longitudinal Study of Dyslexia in which children at familial risk for dyslexia have been followed from birth. Three groups were formed on the basis of 198 children's reading and spelling status. One…
Descriptors: Reading Difficulties, Morphology (Languages), Dyslexia, Phonological Awareness
Early Development of Children at Familial Risk for Dyslexia--Follow-up from Birth to School Age
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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