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The development of children at familial risk for dyslexia: birth to early school age.
Annals of dyslexia - 1 Dec 2004
Lyytinen Heikki, Aro Mikko, Eklund Kenneth, Erskine Jane, Guttorm Tomi, Laakso Marja-Leena, Leppänen Paavo H T, Lyytinen Paula, Poikkeus Anna-Maija, Torppa Minna
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Children at risk for familial dyslexia (n = 107) and their controls (n = 93) have been followed from birth to school entry in the Jyvaskyla Longitudinal study of Dyslexia (JLD) on developmental factors linked to reading and dyslexia. At the point of school entry, the majority of the at-risk children displayed decoding ability that fell at least 1 SD below the mean of the control group. Measures of speech...
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