Oral language deficits in familial dyslexia: A meta-analysis and review.

ABSTRACT: 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 experience delayed language development as infants and toddlers. In the preschool period, they have significant difficulties in phonological processes as well as with broader language skills and in acquiring the foundations of decoding skill (letter knowledge, phonological awareness and rapid automatized naming [RAN]). Findings are mixed with regard to auditory and visual perception: they do not appear subject to slow motor development, but lack of control for comorbidities confounds interpretation. Longitudinal studies of outcomes show that children at family risk who go on to fulfil criteria for dyslexia

SUBMITTER: Snowling MJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4824243 | biostudies-literature | 2016 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature