Pathways Into Literacy: The Role of Early Oral Language Abilities and Family Risk for Dyslexia

The present study investigated the role of early oral language and family risk for dyslexia in the two developmental pathways toward reading comprehension, through word reading and through oral language abilities. The sample contained 237 children (164 at family risk for dyslexia) from the Dutch Dys...

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Published in:Psychological science 2018-03, Vol.29 (3), p.418-428
Main Authors: van Viersen, Sietske, de Bree, Elise H., Zee, Marjolein, Maassen, Ben, van der Leij, Aryan, de Jong, Peter F.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Ability
Child
Child, Preschool
Children
Comprehension
Decoding
Dutch language
Dyslexia
Dyslexia - psychology
Families & family life
Female
Humans
Language Development Disorders - psychology
Language disorders
Language Tests
Literacy
Male
Netherlands
Phonetics
Reading comprehension
Regression Analysis
Risk Assessment
Second languages
Spoken language
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Summary:The present study investigated the role of early oral language and family risk for dyslexia in the two developmental pathways toward reading comprehension, through word reading and through oral language abilities. The sample contained 237 children (164 at family risk for dyslexia) from the Dutch Dyslexia Program. Longitudinal data were obtained on seven occasions when children were between 4 and 12 years old. The relationship between early oral language ability and reading comprehension at the age of 12 years was mediated by preliteracy skills and word-decoding ability for the first pathway and by later language abilities for the second pathway. Family risk influenced literacy development through its subsequent relations with preliteracy skills, word decoding, and reading comprehension. Although performance on language measures was often lower for the family-risk group than for the no-family-risk group, family risk did not have a specific relation with either early or later oral language abilities.
ISSN:0956-7976
1467-9280
DOI:10.1177/0956797617736886