Early cognitive predictors of PISA reading in children with and without family risk for dyslexia
Eklund Kenneth; Niemi Pekka; Sulkunen Sari; Ahonen Timo; Torppa Minna
Early cognitive predictors of PISA reading in children with and without family risk for dyslexia
Eklund Kenneth
Niemi Pekka
Sulkunen Sari
Ahonen Timo
Torppa Minna
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
Julkaisun pysyvä osoite on:
https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi-fe2021042719304
https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi-fe2021042719304
Tiivistelmä
This study examined language skills and pre-literacy skills (phonological awareness, rapid naming, and letter knowledge) before school-age as predictors of NSA reading at age 15 in two groups of children, with (n = 88) and without (n = 70) family-risk for dyslexia. Moreover, effects of family-risk on these early predictors, reading fluency, and PISA reading were examined while controlling the effect of gender. Children were followed from age 2 to 15. Family-risk had a significant effect on early language and pre-literacy skills, reading fluency and PISA reading. A similar model predicting PISA reading fitted the data well in the Family-risk and the No family risk group. Language skills explained a good portion and pre-literacy skills to a lesser extent the variance in PISA reading. Altogether 68% of the variance in PISA reading was explained in the Family-risk group and 44% in the No family-risk group. Findings suggest that family risk sets children at elevated risk to develop long-standing difficulties in language and literacy and that the early language and pre-literacy skills are strong predictors of reading as far as PISA reading at age 15.
Kokoelmat
- Rinnakkaistallenteet [19207]