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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
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Lyytinen, H.; Ahonen, T.; Eklund, K.; Guttorm, T.; Kulju, P.; Laakso, M. -L.; Leiwo, M.; Leppanen, P.; Lyytinen, P.; Poikkeus, A.-M.; Richardson, U.; Torppa, M.; Viholainen, H. – Dyslexia, 2004
We review the main findings of the Jyvaskyla of Dyslexia (JLD) which follows the development of children at familial risk for dyslexia (N = 107) and their controls (N = 93). We will illustrate the development of these two groups of children at ages from birth to school entry in the skill domains that have been connected to reading and reading…
Descriptors: Dyslexia, Predictor Variables, Identification, Child Development