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Parental Literacy Predicts Children's Literacy: A Longitudinal Family-Risk Study.

Authors :
Torppa, Minna
Eklund, Kenneth
Bergen, Elsje
Lyytinen, Heikki
Source :
Dyslexia (10769242); Nov2011, Vol. 17 Issue 4, p339-355, 17p
Publication Year :
2011

Abstract

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 and without dyslexia: the parents of the FR-D children had more severe difficulties in pseudoword reading and spelling accuracy, in rapid word recognition, and in text reading fluency than the parents of the FR-ND children. Finally, parental skills were found to be significant predictors of children's Grade 3 reading and spelling. Parental skills predicted children's reading and spelling accuracy even after controlling for children's preschool skills. Our findings suggest that the literacy skills of a parent with dyslexia might be valuable in assessing early on their child's liability to dyslexia. Copyright © 2011 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Details

Language :
English
ISSN :
10769242
Volume :
17
Issue :
4
Database :
Complementary Index
Journal :
Dyslexia (10769242)
Publication Type :
Academic Journal
Accession number :
66793294
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1002/dys.437