The home literacy environment as a predictor of the early literacy development of children at family-risk of dyslexia
The home literacy environment (HLE) predicts language and reading development in typically developing children; relatively little is known about its association with literacy development in children at family-risk of dyslexia. We assessed the HLE at age 4 years, precursor literacy skills at age 5, a...
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| author | Snowling, M Hamilton, L Hulme, C Hayiou-Thomas, M |
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| description | The home literacy environment (HLE) predicts language and reading development in typically developing children; relatively little is known about its association with literacy development in children at family-risk of dyslexia. We assessed the HLE at age 4 years, precursor literacy skills at age 5, and literacy outcomes at age 6, in a sample of children at family-risk of dyslexia (n=116) and children with no known risk (n=72). Developmental relationships between the HLE and literacy were comparable between the groups; an additional effect of storybook exposure on phoneme awareness was observed in the family-risk group only. The effects of SES on literacy were partially mediated by variations in the HLE; in turn, effects of the HLE on literacy were mediated by precursor skills (oral language, phoneme awareness and emergent decoding) in both groups. Findings are discussed in terms of possible gene-environment correlation mechanisms underpinning atypical literacy development. |
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| spelling | oxford-uuid:c05e8f01-b250-4449-975e-7eb493c4a2372022-03-27T05:53:54ZThe home literacy environment as a predictor of the early literacy development of children at family-risk of dyslexiaJournal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_dcae04bcuuid:c05e8f01-b250-4449-975e-7eb493c4a237Symplectic Elements at OxfordTaylor and Francis2016Snowling, MHamilton, LHulme, CHayiou-Thomas, MThe home literacy environment (HLE) predicts language and reading development in typically developing children; relatively little is known about its association with literacy development in children at family-risk of dyslexia. We assessed the HLE at age 4 years, precursor literacy skills at age 5, and literacy outcomes at age 6, in a sample of children at family-risk of dyslexia (n=116) and children with no known risk (n=72). Developmental relationships between the HLE and literacy were comparable between the groups; an additional effect of storybook exposure on phoneme awareness was observed in the family-risk group only. The effects of SES on literacy were partially mediated by variations in the HLE; in turn, effects of the HLE on literacy were mediated by precursor skills (oral language, phoneme awareness and emergent decoding) in both groups. Findings are discussed in terms of possible gene-environment correlation mechanisms underpinning atypical literacy development. |
| spellingShingle | Snowling, M Hamilton, L Hulme, C Hayiou-Thomas, M The home literacy environment as a predictor of the early literacy development of children at family-risk of dyslexia |
| title | The home literacy environment as a predictor of the early literacy development of children at family-risk of dyslexia |
| title_full | The home literacy environment as a predictor of the early literacy development of children at family-risk of dyslexia |
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| title_full_unstemmed | The home literacy environment as a predictor of the early literacy development of children at family-risk of dyslexia |
| title_short | The home literacy environment as a predictor of the early literacy development of children at family-risk of dyslexia |
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