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Carroll, Julia M. and Myers, Joanne M. (2010) Speech and language difficulties in children with and without a family history of dyslexia. Scientific Studies of Reading, Vol.14 (No.3). pp. 247-265. doi:10.1080/10888430903150634 ISSN 1088-8438.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10888430903150634
Abstract
Comorbidity between SLI and dyslexia is well documented. Researchers have variously argued that dyslexia is a separate disorder from SLI, or that children with dyslexia show a subset of the difficulties shown in SLI. This study examines these hypotheses by assessing whether family history of dyslexia and speech and language difficulties are separable risk factors for literacy difficulties. Forty-six children with a family risk of dyslexia (FRD) and 36 children receiving speech therapy (SLT) were compared to 128 typically developing children. A substantial number (41.3%) of the children with FRD had received SLT. The nature of their difficulties did not differ in severity or form from those shown by the other children in SLT. However, both SLT and FRD were independent risk factors in predicting reading difficulties both concurrently and 6 months later. It is argued that the results are best explained in terms of Pennington's (2006) multiple deficits model.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||
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Subjects: | L Education > LB Theory and practice of education R Medicine > RC Internal medicine |
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Divisions: | Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Science > Psychology | ||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Dyslexia -- Research, Language disorders in children -- Great Britain, Speech therapy for children -- Great Britain, Medical genetics | ||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Scientific Studies of Reading | ||||
Publisher: | Routledge | ||||
ISSN: | 1088-8438 | ||||
Official Date: | May 2010 | ||||
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Volume: | Vol.14 | ||||
Number: | No.3 | ||||
Page Range: | pp. 247-265 | ||||
DOI: | 10.1080/10888430903150634 | ||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||
Funder: | Economic and Social Research Council (Great Britain) (ESRC) | ||||
Grant number: | RES-062-23-0195 (ESRC) |
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