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Overview

Kenneth Eklund is affiliated with the University of Jyväskylä in Finland. Their research primarily spans the fields of psychology and social sciences, with a substantial focus on developmental and educational psychology and education.

Their subfields of study include:

  • Developmental and Educational Psychology
  • Education
  • Statistics and Probability
  • Clinical Psychology
  • Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

Eklund's main topics of research cover:

  • Reading and Literacy Development
  • Cognitive and Developmental Aspects of Mathematical Skills
  • Child Development and Digital Technology
  • Early Childhood Education and Development
  • Parental Involvement in Education
  • Language Development and Disorders
  • Education, Achievement, and Giftedness

They have published frequently in venues such as:

  • Learning and Individual Differences
  • Reading and Writing
  • Dyslexia
  • Journal of Learning Disabilities
  • Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research

Examples of recent papers authored or co-authored by Eklund include:

  • "Long-term effects of the home literacy environment on reading development: Familial risk for dyslexia as a moderator" (2021) in Journal of Experimental Child Psychology
  • "The Youth Compass -the effectiveness of an online acceptance and commitment therapy program to promote adolescent mental health: A randomized controlled trial" (2021) in Journal of Contextual Behavioral Science
  • "Unveiling the Mysteries of Dyslexia-Lessons Learned from the Prospective Jyväskylä Longitudinal Study of Dyslexia" (2021) in Brain Sciences
  • "The dynamics of motivation, emotion, and task performance in simulated achievement situations" (2020) in Learning and Individual Differences
  • "Learning Disabilities Elevate Children's Risk for Behavioral-Emotional Problems: Differences Between LD Types, Genders, and Contexts" (2021) in Journal of Learning Disabilities

Frequent co-authors include:

  • Minna Torppa
  • Timo Ahonen
  • Marja-Kristiina Lerkkanen
  • Tuija Aro
  • Noona Kiuru

Best Publications

  • Very early phonological and language skills: estimating individual risk of reading disability

    Anne Puolakanaho;Timo Ahonen;Mikko Aro;Kenneth Eklund

  • Language Development, Literacy Skills, and Predictive Connections to Reading in Finnish Children With and Without Familial Risk for Dyslexia

    Minna Torppa;Paula Lyytinen;Jane Erskine;Kenneth Eklund

  • The development of children at familial risk for dyslexia: birth to early school age.

    Heikki Lyytinen;Mikko Aro;Kenneth Eklund;Jane Erskine

  • Brain event-related potentials (ERPs) measured at birth predict later language development in children with and without familial risk for dyslexia.

    Tomi K. Guttorm;Paavo H.T. Leppänen;Anna-Maija Poikkeus;Kenneth M. Eklund

  • Developmental pathways of children with and without familial risk for dyslexia during the first years of life.

    Heikki Lyytinen;Timo Ahonen;Kenneth Eklund;Tomi K. Guttorm

  • Brain responses to changes in speech sound durations differ between infants with and without familial risk for dyslexia.

    Paavo H. T. Leppänen;Ulla Richardson;Elina Pihko;Kenneth M. Eklund

  • Predicting delayed letter knowledge development and its relation to grade 1 reading achievement among children with and without familial risk for dyslexia.

    Minna Torppa;Anna-Maija Poikkeus;Marja-Leena Laakso;Kenneth Eklund

  • Cortical responses of infants with and without a genetic risk for dyslexia: I. Age effects.

    Elina Pihko;Paavo H. T. Leppänen;Kenneth M. Eklund;Marie Cheour

  • Reading development subtypes and their early characteristics

    Minna Torppa;Asko Tolvanen;Anna-Maija Poikkeus;Kenneth Eklund

  • Counting and RAN: Predictors of Arithmetic Calculation and Reading Fluency.

    Tuire Koponen;Paula Salmi;Kenneth Eklund;Tuija Aro

  • Language development and literacy skills in late-talking toddlers with and without familial risk for dyslexia.

    Paula Lyytinen;Kenneth Eklund;Heikki Lyytinen

  • Newborn brain event-related potentials revealing atypical processing of sound frequency and the subsequent association with later literacy skills in children with familial dyslexia

    Paavo H.T. Leppänen;Jarmo A. Hämäläinen;Hanne K. Salminen;Kenneth M. Eklund

  • Early development of children at familial risk for dyslexia--follow-up from birth to school age.

    H. Lyytinen;T. Ahonen;K. Eklund;T. Guttorm

  • Developmental Links of Very Early Phonological and Language Skills to Second Grade Reading Outcomes: Strong to Accuracy but Only Minor to Fluency

    Anne Puolakanaho;Timo Ahonen;Mikko Aro;Kenneth Eklund

  • Language development and symbolic play in children with and without familial risk for dyslexia.

    Paula Lyytinen;Anna-Maija Poikkeus;Marja-Leena Laakso;Kenneth Eklund

  • Newborn Event-Related Potentials Predict Poorer Pre-Reading Skills in Children at Risk for Dyslexia

    Tomi K. Guttorm;Paavo H. T. Leppänen;Jarmo A. Hämäläinen;Kenneth M. Eklund

  • Event‐related brain potentials to change in rapidly presented acoustic stimuli in newborns

    Paavo H. T. Leppänen;Kenneth M. Eklund;Heikki Lyytinen

  • Maturational effects on newborn ERPs measured in the mismatch negativity paradigm.

    Paavo H.T. Leppänen;Tomi K. Guttorm;Elina Pihko;Sanna Takkinen

  • Counting and rapid naming predict the fluency of arithmetic and reading skills

    Tuire Koponen;Paula Salmi;Minna Torppa;Kenneth Eklund

  • Literacy skill development of children with familial risk for dyslexia through grades 2, 3, and 8

    Kenneth Eklund;Minna Torppa;Mikko Aro;Paavo H. T. Leppänen

Frequent Co-Authors

Heikki Lyytinen
Heikki Lyytinen University of Jyväskylä
Timo Ahonen
Timo Ahonen University of Jyväskylä
Anna-Maija Poikkeus
Anna-Maija Poikkeus University of Jyväskylä
Paavo H.T. Leppänen
Paavo H.T. Leppänen University of Jyväskylä
Mikko Aro
Mikko Aro University of Jyväskylä
Marja-Kristiina Lerkkanen
Marja-Kristiina Lerkkanen University of Jyväskylä
Asko Tolvanen
Asko Tolvanen University of Jyväskylä
Jari-Erik Nurmi
Jari-Erik Nurmi University of Jyväskylä
Noona Kiuru
Noona Kiuru University of Jyväskylä
Pekka Niemi
Pekka Niemi University of Turku

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