Valentina Levantini, Pietro Muratori, Iacopo Bertacchi, Virginia Grilli, Alessandra Marzano, Gabriele Masi, Annarita Milone, Eva R Kimonis
The "Measure of Empathy in Early Childhood": Psychometric Properties and Associations with Externalizing Problems and Callous Unemotional Traits
Child psychiatry and human development
considerable focus public policy screening children reading difficulties sixty years research resolved questions constructs assessed kindergarten best predict subsequent reading outcomes study assessed relative importance multiple measures obtained kindergarten sample prediction reading outcomes end 1st 2nd grades analyses revealed measures phonological awareness letter sound knowledge naming speed consistently accounted unique variance across reading outcomes whereas measures perceptual skills oral language vocabulary results show measures letter name letter sound knowledge naming speed phonological awareness good predictors multiple reading outcomes grades 1 2