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Brain responses to changes in speech sound durations differ between infants with and without familial risk for dyslexia.
Developmental neuropsychology - 1 Jan 2002
Leppänen Paavo H T, Richardson Ulla, Pihko Elina, Eklund Kenneth M, Guttorm Tomi K, Aro Mikko, Lyytinen Heikki
Abstract excerpt
A specific learning disability, developmental dyslexia, is a language-based disorder that is shown to be strongly familial. Therefore, infants born to families with a history of the disorder are at an elevated risk for the disorder. However, little is known of the potential early markers of dyslexia. Here we report differences between 6-month-old infants with and without high risk of familial dyslexia in brain...
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