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Family Risk of Dyslexia Is Continuous: Individual Differences in the Precursors of Reading Skill
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The development of 56 children at family risk of dyslexia was followed from the age of 3 years, 9 months to 8 years. In the high-risk group, 66% had reading disabilities at age 8 years compared with 13% in a control group from similar, middle-class backgrounds. However, the family risk of dyslexia was continuous, and high-risk children who did not fulfil criteria for reading impairment at 8 years performed as poorly at age 6 as did high-risk impaired children on tests of grapheme–phoneme knowledge. The findings are interpreted within an interactive model of reading development in which problems in establishing a phonological pathway in dyslexic families may be compensated early by children who have strong language skills.
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- Authors
- Snowling, M. J., Gallagher, A., & Frith, U.
- Venue
- Child Development
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press (OUP)
- Published
- 2003-03-01
- Volume
- 74
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 358-373
- ISSN
- 0009-3920 (ISSN-L)
- 1467-8624
- OpenAlex
- W2025534540
- Cited by
- 543
- References
- 42
- FWCI
- 32.15
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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