Sietske van Viersen|Elise de Bree|Marjolein Zee|Ben Maassen|Aryan van der Leij|Peter F. de Jong
Pathways Into Literacy: The Role of Early Oral Language Abilities and Family Risk for Dyslexia
University of Amsterdam|University of Amsterdam|University of Amsterdam|University of Groningen|University of Amsterdam|University of Amsterdam
present study investigated role early oral language family risk dyslexia two developmental pathways toward reading comprehension word reading oral language abilities sample contained 237 children 164 family risk dyslexia dutch dyslexia program longitudinal data obtained seven occasions children 4 12 years old relationship early oral language ability reading comprehension age 12 years mediated preliteracy skills worddecoding ability first pathway later language abilities second pathway family risk influenced literacy development subsequent relations preliteracy skills word decoding reading comprehension although performance language measures often lower familyrisk group nofamilyrisk group family risk specific relation either early later oral language abilities