Family History as an Indicator of Risk for Reading Disability

Author:

Vogler George P.1,DeFries J. C.2,Decker Sadie N.3

Affiliation:

1. George P. Vogler received his BA in Psychology from Rutgers University in 1978, and is currently a trainee in behavioral genetics at the Institute for Behavioral Genetics, University of Colorado, Boulder

2. J. C. DeFries received his graduate training in genetics at the University of Illinois, Urbana. He has been a research fellow in genetics. University of California, Berkeley, a visiting professor of genetics, University of Hawaii, and faculty fellow in the Institute of Psychiatry, University of London. He is currently Director of the Institute for Behavioral Genetics and Professor of Behavioral Genetics and Psychology at the University of Colorado.

3. Sadie N. Decker received her PhD from the Department of Communication Disorders and Speech Science, University of Colorado, Boulder. She is currently a research associate at the Institute for Behavioral Genetics where she is conducting a three-year study of reading disability in twins. Address: Dr. DeFries, Institute for Behavioral Genetics, Box 447, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309.

Abstract

Self-reported reading ability of the parents of 174 reading-disabled children and of 182 controls was used to estimate the posterior probability that a child will become reading disabled given that a parent is affected. Using Bayesian inverse probability analysis, it was found that the risk for reading disability is increased substantially (by a factor of from about 4 to over 13) if either parent has had difficulty in learning to read. The absolute risk appears to be sufficiently high to warrant clinical application of family history information as one component of a multifactorial risk assessment battery.

Publisher

SAGE Publications

Subject

General Health Professions,Education,Health(social science)

同舟云学术

1.学者识别学者识别

2.学术分析学术分析

3.人才评估人才评估

"同舟云学术"是以全球学者为主线,采集、加工和组织学术论文而形成的新型学术文献查询和分析系统,可以对全球学者进行文献检索和人才价值评估。用户可以通过关注某些学科领域的顶尖人物而持续追踪该领域的学科进展和研究前沿。经过近期的数据扩容,当前同舟云学术共收录了国内外主流学术期刊6万余种,收集的期刊论文及会议论文总量共计约1.5亿篇,并以每天添加12000余篇中外论文的速度递增。我们也可以为用户提供个性化、定制化的学者数据。欢迎来电咨询!咨询电话:010-8811{复制后删除}0370

www.globalauthorid.com

TOP

Copyright © 2019-2024 北京同舟云网络信息技术有限公司
京公网安备11010802033243号  京ICP备18003416号-3