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Daria Khanolainen; Cara Verwimp; Jurgen Tijms; Asko Tolvanen; Jenni Salminen; Minna Torppa – Journal of Research in Reading, 2024
Background: The adult reading history questionnaire (ARHQ) is frequently used in research on adult dyslexia and family risk for dyslexia. However, this measure is lengthy (23 items), reducing its applicability in studies with extensive assessment batteries. Methods: We identified the best-performing ARHQ items in a sample of 396 Finnish adults…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Grade 1, Parents, Family (Sociological Unit)
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Guttorm, Tomi K.; Leppanen, Paavo H. T.; Hamalainen, Jarmo A.; Eklund, Kenneth M.; Lyytinen, Heikki J. – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2010
Earlier results from the Jyvaskyla Longitudinal Study of Dyslexia showed that newborn event-related potentials (ERPs) of children with and without familial risk for dyslexia were associated with receptive language and verbal memory skills between 2.5 and 5 years of age. We further examined whether these ERPs (responses to synthetic consonant-vowel…
Descriptors: Dyslexia, Disability Identification, Memory, Receptive Language
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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