John Hutton|Jonathan Dudley|Guixia Huang|Tzipi Horowitz?Kraus|Thomas G. DeWitt|Richard F. Ittenbach|Scott K. Holland
Validation of <i>The Reading House</i> and Association With Cortical Thickness
Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center|Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center|University of Cincinnati|Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center|Technion – Israel Institute of Technology|Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center|University of Cincinnati|Medpace (United States)
background objectives american academy pediatrics recommends literacy school readiness promotion well visits reading house trh childrens bookbased screener emergent literacy skills preschoolaged children vocabulary rhyming rapid naming core emergent skills reading abilities associated thicker cortex left hemisphere objective expand validity trh relative skills explore association cortical thickness methods healthy preschoolaged children completed mri including t1weighted anatomic scan mri trh assessments rapid naming comprehensive test phonological processing second edition rhyming prereading inventory phonological awareness vocabulary expressive vocabulary test second edition emergent literacy get ready read administered analyses included spearman correlations raccounting age sex socioeconomic status ses mri analyses involved wholebrain measures cortical thickness relative trh scores accounting covariates results seventy children completed assessments 3663 months old 36 female 52 completed mri 3763 months 29 female trh scores positively correlated comprehensive test phonological processing second edition r 061 expressive vocabulary test second edition r 054 get ready read r 087 prereading inventory phonological awareness scores r 064 p amplt 001 correlations remained statistically significant across age sex ses groups trh scores correlated greater thickness leftsided language visual cortex pfamilywise error amplt05 similar higher ses yet bilateral frontal low ses reflecting less mature pattern pfamilywise error amplt10 conclusions findings expand validation evidence trh screening tool preschoolaged children including associations emergent skills cortical thickness suggest important differences related ses