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Validity of self-reported reading disability by parents of reading-disabled and control children

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Composite reading scores obtained from parents of 125 reading-disabled children and 125 matched control children who participated in the Colorado Family Reading Study were used to test the validity of self-reported reading problems. Parents who reported that they encountered serious difficulty learning to read had significantly lower reading scores than did those who reported no positive history of reading problems. Moreover, this difference was larger for parents of reading-disabled children than for those of controls. Thus, parental self-reports provide a valid index of reading problems.

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  1. Sadie N. Decker

    Present address: Martin Marietta MS: B3385, Post Office Box 179, 80201, Denver, CO, U.S.A.

  2. George P. Vogler

    Present address: Division of Biostatistics, Washington University School of Medicine, 660 South Euclid, Box 8067, 63110, St. Louis, MO, U.S.A.

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  1. Institute for Behavioral Genetics, University of Colorado, 80309, Boulder, CO, U.S.A.

    Sadie N. Decker, George P. Vogler & J. C. Defries

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Decker, S.N., Vogler, G.P. & Defries, J.C. Validity of self-reported reading disability by parents of reading-disabled and control children. Read Writ 1, 327–331 (1989). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00386265

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