This study addressed the issue of specificity in reading disability by comparing two
approaches to defining and selecting children with reading disabilities. One approach …

Reversal errors play a prominent role in theories of reading disability. We examined reversal
errors in the writing of letters by 5-to 6-year-old children. Of the 130 children, 92 had a …

Purpose This study examined (a) the extent of genetic and environmental influences on
children's articulation and language difficulties and (b) the phenotypic associations between …

The present study combined parallel data from the Northeast—Northwest Collaborative
Adoption Projects (N2CAP) and the Western Reserve Reading Project (WRRP) to examine …

The risk for internalizing disorders in children with learning disabilities is frequently debated
in the research community and empirical responses are equivocal. For educators and …

A substantial body of research confirms higher verbal ability in normally achieving females
and higher visual-spatial and mathematical abilities in normally achieving males. However …

Understanding sex differences at the neurobiological level has become increasingly crucial
in both basic and applied research. In the study of developmental dyslexia, early …

To test the hypothesis that the genetic etiology of reading disability differs as a function of IQ,
composite reading performance data from 223 pairs of identical twins and 169 pairs of same …

Inverse Bayesian analyses were applied to data from three large family studies of reading
disability to estimate the posterior probability that an offspring will be affected, given that a …