Pekka
Niemi
Psychology
PhD
Biography
Please see the attached short CV.
Research
Beginning reading and its difficulties, particularly so-called "treatment resisters" who despite ample help show very slow progress in their reading career.
Publications
Longitudinal Effects of the Home Learning Environment and Parental Difficulties on Reading and Math Development Across Grades 1-9 (2020)
Frontiers in Psychology
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Leisure reading (but not any kind) promotes reading comprehension – A longitudinal study in grades 1 to 9 (2020)
Child Development
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Reading comprehension difficulty is often distinct from difficulty in reading fluency and accompanied with problems in motivation and school well-being (2020)
Educational Psychology
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Word Reading Skills and Externalizing and Internalizing Problems from Grade 1 to Grade 2 - Developmental Trajectories and Bullying Involvement in Grade 3 (2019)
Scientific Studies of Reading
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Kindergarten Training in Phonological Awareness: Fluency and Comprehension Gains Are Greatest for Readers at Risk in Grades 1 Through 9 (2019)
Journal of Learning Disabilities
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Prematurity and overlap between reading and arithmetic: The cognitive mechanism behind the association (2019)
Contemporary Educational Psychology
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Why do boys and girls perform differently on PISA Reading in Finland? The effects of reading fluency, achievement behaviour, leisure reading and homework activity (2018)
Journal of Research in Reading
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Early cognitive predictors of PISA reading in children with and without family risk for dyslexia (2018)
Learning and Individual Differences
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Comorbid Fluency Difficulties in Reading and Math: Longitudinal Stability Across Early Grades (2018)
Exceptional Children
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Reading and math abilities of Finnish school beginners born very preterm or with very low birth weight (2017)
Learning and Individual Differences
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