A r c h i v e d I n f o r m a t i o n
Individual Risk Factors
children of parents with histories of reading difficulty
children who acquired less knowledge and skill pertaining to literacy during the preschool years
- through lack of appropriate home literacy experiences and/or
- as a result of some inherent cognitive limitations
children who lack age-appropriate skills in literacy-related cognitive-linguistic processing, especially phonological awareness, confrontation naming, sentence/story recall, and general language ability
children who have been diagnosed as having specific early language impairment
children who have a hearing impairment;
children who have a primary medical diagnosis with which reading problems tend to occur as a secondary symptom.