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- Title
The impact of adolescents' dyslexia on parents' and their own educational expectations.
- Authors
Rimkute, Laura; Torppa, Minna; Eklund, Kenneth; Nurmi, Jari-Erik; Lyytinen, Heikki
- Abstract
The present study examined the role that adolescents' dyslexia plays in their educational expectations, as well as their parents' expectations concerning their offspring's future education. To investigate this, 170 adolescents were asked to report their educational expectations on two occasions while they were still attending comprehensive school (in 7th and 9th grade). Forty-five of the 170 adolescents were diagnosed as having dyslexia. The adolescents' mothers and fathers also filled in questionnaires concerning their educational expectations for their offspring. The results showed that parents of boys with dyslexia had lower expectations about their sons' future education than parents of typically reading boys. However, parents of girls with dyslexia and parents of typically reading girls did not differ in this respect. Parents' expectations also predicted the adolescents' own educational expectations. Moreover, dyslexia was associated with boys' academic achievement (GPA), which further predicted their educational expectations.
- Subjects
DYSLEXIA; LANGUAGE disorders in adolescence; COMMUNICATIVE disorders in adolescence; PARENTS of children with disabilities; ACADEMIC achievement
- Publication
Reading & Writing, 2014, Vol 27, Issue 7, p1231
- ISSN
0922-4777
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s11145-013-9484-x