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Direct linkByrne, Brian; Wadsworth, Sally; Corley, Robin; Samuelsson, Stefan; Quain, Peter; DeFries, John C.; Willcutt, Erik; Olson, Richard K. – Scientific Studies of Reading, 2005
We conducted behavior?genetic analyses of kindergarten reading, spelling, phonological awareness, rapid naming, and spoken sentence processing in 172 pairs of monozygotic and 153 pairs of same-sex dizygotic twin kindergarten children sampled in the United States and Australia. We also modeled progress from preschool to kindergarten in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Phonology, Kindergarten, Spelling
Hulslander, Jacqueline; Talcott, Joel; Witton, Caroline; DeFries, John; Pennington, Bruce; Wadsworth, Sally; Willcutt, Erik; Olson, Richard – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 2004
Detection thresholds for two visual- and two auditory-processing tasks were obtained for 73 children and young adults who varied broadly in reading ability. A reading-disabled subgroup had significantly higher thresholds than a normal-reading subgroup for the auditory tasks only. When analyzed across the whole group, the auditory tasks and one of…
Descriptors: Reading, Attention, Children, Cognitive Processes
