Predicting Dyslexia from Kindergarten: The Importance of Distinctness of Phonological Representations of Lexical Items.

Elbro, Carsten; Petersen, Dorthe Klint; Borstrom, Ina

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ERIC Number: EJ559452

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Publication Date: 1998

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Predicting Dyslexia from Kindergarten: The Importance of Distinctness of Phonological Representations of Lexical Items.

Elbro, Carsten; Petersen, Dorthe Klint; Borstrom, Ina

Reading Research Quarterly, v33 n1 p36-60 Jan-Mar 1998

Presents results from a longitudinal study of Danish children of dyslexic and normally reading parents. Follows children from beginning of kindergarten to the beginning of grade 2. Finds children of dyslexics have an increased risk of dyslexia when dyslexia was defined as poor phonological recoding. Notes that all language measures in kindergarten were predictors of dyslexia. (PA)

Descriptors: Dyslexia, Foreign Countries, Kindergarten, Longitudinal Studies, Parent Influence, Predictor Variables, Primary Education, Reading Research

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research

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Language: English

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Identifiers - Location: Denmark

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