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Vataja, Pia; Lerkkanen, Marja-Kristiina; Aro, Mikko; Westerholm, Jari; Risberg, Ann-Katrine; Salmi, Paula – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2022
The aim of the study was to examine which predictor variables are related to literacy skills among monolingual Swedish (n = 269) and bilingual Finnish-Swedish (n = 229) children at the first grade in the Swedish-speaking schools in Finland. The participants were assessed in phonological awareness, letter knowledge, rapid automatized naming (RAN),…
Descriptors: Literacy, Monolingualism, Bilingual Students, Finno Ugric Languages
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Torppa, Minna; Eklund, Kenneth; van Bergen, Elsje; Lyytinen, Heikki – Dyslexia, 2011
This family-risk (FR) study examined whether the literacy skills of parents with dyslexia are predictive of the literacy skills of their offspring. We report data from 31 child-parent dyads where both had dyslexia (FR-D) and 68 dyads where the child did not have dyslexia (FR-ND). Findings supported the differences in liability of FR children with…
Descriptors: Spelling, Reading Fluency, Dyslexia, Word Recognition