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Area of Science:

  • Child Development
  • Educational Psychology
  • Special Education

Background:

  • Children with learning disabilities (LDs) are at increased risk for reading delays.
  • The informal home literacy environment (HLE) is crucial for early literacy development.
  • Limited research exists on HLE differences between children with and without LDs.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To compare the informal HLE of children with and without LDs.
  • To examine the association between informal HLE and pre-reading skills in both groups.
  • To investigate the influence of socioeconomic status (SES) on these comparisons.

Main Methods:

  • Analysis of data from 2,090 U.S. children in the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study-Kindergarten Cohort (ECLS-K:2011).
  • Comparison of informal HLE and pre-reading skills between children with and without LDs.
  • Statistical control for socioeconomic status (SES).

Main Results:

  • Children with LDs exhibited a lower informal HLE the summer before kindergarten compared to their peers without LDs.
  • This difference in HLE was not independent of socioeconomic status (SES).
  • Informal HLE was comparably associated with pre-reading skills at kindergarten entry for both groups, even after accounting for SES.

Conclusions:

  • Children with LDs experience a less supportive informal home literacy environment (HLE) than their peers without LDs.
  • The association between informal HLE and pre-reading skills is consistent across children with and without LDs.
  • Interventions aimed at improving HLE may benefit children with LDs, considering SES factors.