Pediatric Neurology Briefs (Jun 1987)

Genetics and Reading Disabilities

  • J Gordon Millichap

DOI
https://doi.org/10.15844/pedneurbriefs-1-1-9
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 1, no. 1
pp. 5 – 5

Abstract

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Psychologists and psychiatrists at the University of Surrey, Guildford, Surrey, and the Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond Street, London, UK studied the reading skills of 285 pairs of 13 year-old twins using standardized measures of intelligence, reading and spelling ability and correlations in monozygotic and same-sex dizygotic twins.

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