Lorna G. Hamilton|Marianna E. Hayiou?Thomas|Charles Hulme|Margaret J. Snowling
The Home Literacy Environment as a Predictor of the Early Literacy Development of Children at Family-Risk of Dyslexia
York St John University|University of York|University College London|University of Oxford
home literacy environment hle predicts language reading development typically developing children relatively little known association literacy development children familyrisk dyslexia assessed hle age 4 years precursor literacy skills age 5 literacy outcomes age 6 sample children familyrisk dyslexia n 116 children known risk n 72 developmental relationships hle literacy comparable groups additional effect storybook exposure phoneme awareness observed familyrisk group effects socioeconomic status literacy partially mediated variations hle turn effects hle literacy mediated precursor skills oral language phoneme awareness emergent decoding groups findings discussed terms possible geneenvironment correlation mechanisms underpinning atypical literacy development