Literacy and mental disorders

B Maughan, J Carroll - Current Opinion in Psychiatry, 2006 - journals.lww.com
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Early parental depression and child language development

JF Paulson, HA Keefe… - Journal of Child …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
Objective: To examine the effects of early maternal and paternal depression on child
expressive language at age 24 months and the role that parent‐to‐child reading may play in …

Early child language mediates the relation between home environment and school readiness

N Forget‐Dubois, G Dionne, JP Lemelin… - Child …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
Home environment quality is a well‐known predictor of school readiness (SR), although the
underlying processes are little known. This study tested two hypotheses:(a) child language …

Literacy and numeracy are more heritable than intelligence in primary school

Y Kovas, I Voronin, A Kaydalov… - Psychological …, 2013 - journals.sagepub.com
Because literacy and numeracy are the focus of teaching in schools, whereas general
cognitive ability (g, intelligence) is not, it would be reasonable to expect that literacy and …

The genetic–environmental etiology of cognitive school readiness and later academic achievement in early childhood

JP Lemelin, M Boivin, N Forget‐Dubois… - Child …, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
Using a genetic design of 840 60‐month‐old twins, this study investigated the genetic and
environmental contributions to (a) individual differences in four components of cognitive …

Parental provision of early literacy environment as related to reading and educational outcomes across the academic lifespan

AW Gottfried, J Schlackman, AE Gottfried… - Parenting, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
Objective. The quantity of time mothers read to their young children and the print
environment in their homes were examined for their relations to reading achievement and …

[HTML][HTML] Why does parental language input style predict child language development? A twin study of gene–environment correlation

PS Dale, MG Tosto, ME Hayiou-Thomas… - Journal of communication …, 2015 - Elsevier
There are well-established correlations between parental input style and child language
development, which have typically been interpreted as evidence that the input style causes …

From learning to read to reading to learn: Substantial and stable genetic influence

N Harlaar, PS Dale, R Plomin - Child Development, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
Little is known about the underlying causes and developmental patterns of stability and
change in early reading abilities. In a longitudinal study of twins (n= 4,291 pairs), individual …

Why do preschool language abilities correlate with later reading? A twin study

N Harlaar, ME Hayiou-Thomas, PS Dale, R Plomin - 2008 - ASHA
Purpose Language acquisition is predictive of successful reading development, but the
nature of this link is poorly understood. Method A sample of 7,179 twin pairs was assessed …

Environmental influences on the longitudinal covariance of expressive vocabulary: Measuring the home literacy environment in a genetically sensitive design

SA Hart, SA Petrill, LS DeThorne… - Journal of Child …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
Background: Despite the well‐replicated relationship between the home literacy
environment and expressive vocabulary, few studies have examined the extent to which the …