Stuttering occurs in early childhood during a dynamic phase of brain and behavioral
development. The latest studies examining children at ages close to this critical …

Dyslexia, a specific reading disability, is a common (up to 10% of children) and highly
heritable (~ 70%) neurodevelopmental disorder. Behavioral and molecular genetic …

Reading and writing are crucial life skills but roughly one in ten children are affected by
dyslexia, which can persist into adulthood. Family studies of dyslexia suggest heritability up …

Severe speech disorders lead to poor literacy, reduced academic attainment and negative
psychosocial outcomes. As early as the 1950s, the familial nature of speech disorders was …

Language disorders are highly heritable and are influenced by complex interactions
between genetic and environmental factors. Despite more than twenty years of research, we …

Personality and cognitive function are heritable mental traits whose genetic foundations may
be distributed across interconnected brain functions. Previous studies have typically treated …

Here we build from the central strength of the existing definition of dyslexia—its emphasis on
neurobiological origins—and proffer a set of seven core principles for a new, more …

The rise of new media has greatly changed the lifestyles, leading to increased time on these
platforms and less time spent reading. This shift has particularly profound impacts on early …

Children show an enormous capacity to learn during development, but with large individual
differences in the time course and trajectory of learning and the achieved skill level. Recent …

Using individual differences approaches, a growing body of literature finds positive
associations between musicality and language-related abilities, complementing prior …