The majority of work on the double-deficit hypothesis (DDH) of dyslexia has been done at
the letter and word levels of reading. Key research questions addressed in this study are (a) …

Objectives To determine if differences between dyslexic and typical readers in their reading
scores and verbal IQ are evident as early as first grade and whether the trajectory of these …

Background: A fundamental issue for child psychology concerns the origins of individual
differences in early reading development. Method: A measure of word recognition, the Test …

There is persisting debate concerning the use of an ability-achievement discrepancy formula
to define and identify learning disabled—including reading disabled—students. This study …

This family‐risk (FR) study examined whether the literacy skills of parents with dyslexia are
predictive of the literacy skills of their offspring. We report data from 31 child–parent dyads …

It is well established that emergent literacy is a strong predictor of later reading difficulties,
and that the home literacy environment plays an important role in the development of …

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 …

How prevalent is dyslexia? A definitive answer to this question has been elusive because of
the continuous distribution of reading performance and predictors of dyslexia and because …

This article synthesizes some of the published literature that selectively compares the
cognitive functioning of children with math disabilities (MDs) with average-achieving …

Disorders of reading and mathematics co-occur at greater than chance rates, but they are
often studied separately. This article reports the reading and arithmetic outcomes at 9 years …