Developmental dyslexia is an unexplained inability to acquire accurate or fluent reading that
affects approximately 5–17% of children. Dyslexia is associated with structural and …

Shared reading research has become increasingly multidisciplinary and has incorporated a
multitude of assessment methods. This calls for an interdisciplinary perspective on children's …

Background Strong associations between infant vocabulary and school‐age language and
literacy skills would have important practical and theoretical implications: Preschool …

Background Causal theories of dyslexia suggest that it is a heritable disorder, which is the
outcome of multiple risk factors. However, whether early screening for dyslexia is viable is …

We investigate the role of distal, proximal, and child risk factors as predictors of reading
readiness and attention and behavior in children at risk of dyslexia. The parents of a …

Highlights•Genetic, neural, cognitive, and environmental risks for dyslexia are
identified.•Evidence supports a multi-componential framework for dyslexia …

This paper presents findings from a study of family literacy provision in England and focuses
on the effects of family literacy programmes on the home literacy environment. The fieldwork …

According to contemporary research, there is a group of children at higher risk of literacy
difficulties. It is widely accepted today that these children at risk of dyslexia are children with …

Developmental dyslexia is a language-based learning disability characterized by persistent
difficulty in learning to read. While an understanding of genetic contributions is emerging …

Previous studies using direct forms of vocabulary instruction have shown that newly learned
words are integrated with existing lexical knowledge only after off-line consolidation (as …