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Only a third of children, it will add, from low-income backgrounds reach what is considered a good level of development by the start of schooling, which means they will face a constant struggle to keep up in class.
For example, Alderman et al. (2006) find that in Zimbabwe (where the mean total number of years in school is about 8.5), a one standard deviation increase in the child's height-for-age z-score delays the start of schooling by about 5 months, while Glewwe et al. (2001) find an effect in the Philippines that is about half as large.
When the first behavioral genetic studies of dyslexia revealed high heritability, many of us in the field anticipated that sooner or later there would be genetic tests that would make it possible to identify a child's risk of dyslexia before the start of schooling.
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