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Le Jan, Guylaine; Le Bouquin-Jeannes, Regine; Costet, Nathalie; Troles, Nolwenn; Scalart, Pascal; Pichancourt, Dominique; Faucon, Gerard; Gombert, Jean-Emile – Annals of Dyslexia, 2011
Dyslexia is a specific disorder of language development that mainly affects reading. Etiological researches have led to multiple hypotheses which induced various diagnosis methods and rehabilitation treatments so that many different tests are used by practitioners to identify dyslexia symptoms. Our purpose is to determine a subset of the most…
Descriptors: Reading Difficulties, Dyslexia, Language Acquisition, Etiology
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Davis, Chayna J.; Knopik, Valerie S.; Olson, Richard K.; Wadsworth, Sally J.; DeFries, John C. – Annals of Dyslexia, 2001
A study assessed genetic and environmental etiologies of reading, rapid naming (RN), and their covariation using data from 587 twin pairs (ages 7-20) in which one student had reading difficulties and from 360 control pairs. Correlation between reading and RN performances for subjects was significantly higher than that of controls. (Contains…
Descriptors: Biological Influences, Elementary Secondary Education, Environmental Influences, Etiology
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Molfese, Victoria J.; Molfese, Dennis L. – Annals of Dyslexia, 2002
A series of studies are reviewed that identify markers in the "event-related potentials" related to differences in the development of language and reading skills. In addition, home environment and other variables that influence the intellectual environment are linked with predictions of language and reading skill development. (Contains…
Descriptors: Dyslexia, Early Childhood Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Environmental Influences