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Peer reviewedOlson, Richard; And Others – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 1989
Word recognition data from identical and fraternal twins and siblings (N=172) indicated that the phonological coding deficit of children with reading disabilities was highly heritable. Orthographic coding was not significantly heritable. Poor readers with low IQs were superior to similar reading but average IQ readers in phonological coding.…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Genetics, Heredity, Intelligence Differences
Direct linkPetrill, Stephen A.; Deater-Deckard, Kirby; Thompson, Lee Anne; DeThorne, Laura S.; Schatschneider, Christopher – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2006
The present study combined parallel data from the Northeast-Northwest Collaborative Adoption Projects (N2CAP) and the Western Reserve Reading Project (WRRP) to examine sibling similarity and quantitative genetic model estimates for measures of reading skills in 272 school-age sibling pairs from three family types (monozygotic twins, dizygotic…
Descriptors: Environmental Influences, Cognitive Ability, Twins, Reading Skills
