This article reviews 95 publications (based on 21 independent samples) that have examined
children at family risk of reading disorders. We report that children at family risk of dyslexia …

The possible mechanisms involved in continuities and discontinuities in psychopathology
between childhood and adult life are considered in relation to the findings from systematic …

Infancy is a time of rapid growth, when brain plasticity is at a maximum. Event-related
potentials (ERPs) are one of the few methods that can easily and safely be used to study this …

Utilizing a longitudinal sample of Finnish children (ages 6–10), two studies examined how
early linguistic (spoken vs. written) and spatial skills predict later development of arithmetic …

Developmental dyslexia is a genetically based neurobiological syndrome, which is
characterized by reading difficulty despite normal or high general intelligence. Even …

Our understanding of learning difficulties largely comes from children with specific
diagnoses or individuals selected from community/clinical samples according to strict …

Children at risk for familial dyslexia (n= 107) and their controls (n= 93) have been followed
from birth to school entry in the Jyväskylä Longitudinal study of Dyslexia (JLD) on …

Mathematical difficulties have been distinguished as mathematics learning disability (MLD)
and persistent low achievement (LA). Based on 1,880 Finnish children who were followed …

The purpose of this qualitative research was to form an understanding of composition of
school well-being construed by students themselves, and the factors that construct the well …

Understanding of the factors that underlie the development of fluency in reading and
arithmetic is limited. This longitudinal study examined whether verbal counting and rapid …