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Parental Literacy Predicts Children's Literacy: A Longitudinal Family-Risk Study.
- Source :
- Dyslexia (10769242); Nov2011, Vol. 17 Issue 4, p339-355, 17p
- Publication Year :
- 2011
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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