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Puolakanaho, Anne; Ahonen, Timo; Aro, Mikko; Eklund, Kenneth; Leppanen, Paavo H. T.; Poikkeus, Anna-Maija; Tolvanen, Asko; Torppa, Minna; Lyytinen, Heikki – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2008
The authors examined second grade reading accuracy and fluency and their associations via letter knowledge to phonological and language predictors assessed at 3.5, 4.5, and 5.5 years in children in the Jyvaskyla Longitudinal Study of Dyslexia. Structural equation modeling showed that a developmentally highly stable factor (early phonological and…
Descriptors: Reading Difficulties, Reading Fluency, Structural Equation Models, Dyslexia
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Puolakanaho, Anne; Ahonen, Timo; Aro, Mikko; Eklund, Kenneth; Leppanen, Paavo H. T.; Poikkeus, Anna-Maija; Tolvanen, Asko; Torppa, Minna; Lyytinen, Heikki – Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 2007
Background: Analyses from the Jyvaskyla Longitudinal Study of Dyslexia project show that the key childhood predictors (phonological awareness, short-term memory, rapid naming, expressive vocabulary, pseudoword repetition, and letter naming) of dyslexia differentiate the group with reading disability (n = 46) and the group without reading problems…
Descriptors: Reading Difficulties, Dyslexia, Phonological Awareness, Short Term Memory
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Leinonen, Seija; Muller, Kurt; Leppanen, Paavo H. T.; Aro, Mikko; Ahonen, Timo; Lyytinen, Heikki – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2001
Compares subgroups of Finnish dyslexic adults displaying, relative to each other, a distinctive combination of accuracy and speed of oral text reading in phonological and orthographic processing, verbal short-term memory and reading habits. Indicates that advanced orthographic processing skills might help a number of the dyslexic readers to…
Descriptors: Adults, Dyslexia, Heterogeneous Grouping, Higher Education