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 …

Fourteen twin pairs, aged 8 to 10 years, were tested 3 times over 12 months; they included
11 children with language impairment (LI), 11 control children matched on nonverbal ability …

A multiple case study was conducted in order to assess three leading theories of
developmental dyslexia:(i) the phonological theory,(ii) the magnocellular (auditory and …

The home literacy environment (HLE) predicts language and reading development in
typically developing children; relatively little is known about its association with literacy …

This paper reports a study that followed the development of reading skills in 72 children from
the age of 8.5 to 13 years. Each child was administered tests of reading, oral language …

There is good evidence that phoneme awareness and letter-sound knowledge are reliable
longitudinal predictors of learning to read, though whether they have a causal effect remains …

The study examined how cognitive and motivational factors predicted reading skill and
whether intrinsic reading motivation would explain significantly more variance in low ability …

This book presents a systematic hypothesis testing approach to the assessment of speech
processing skills in children, and is based on the popular courses run by the authors. The …

This study investigated reading skills in 41 children with autism spectrum disorder. Four
components of reading skill were assessed: word recognition, nonword decoding, text …

Two studies investigated the ability to use contextual information in stories to infer the
meanings of novel vocabulary by 9–10-year-olds with good and poor reading …