title: Tracking citations: a science detective story.
abstract: The earliest hypothesis concerning the phonetic-phonological roots of reading and writing learning disabilities is usually attributed to Boder in the U.S. literature. Yet by following a trail of references to work in psychology and education conducted some 30 years earlier in the USSR, we find the seeds of this idea already well established in the work of Russian educator and psychologist Roza Levina. Here we trace the Soviet origins of these ideas and discuss their heretofore unrecognized importance in the field of learning disabilities and special education.
authors.affiliation: Research Institute for Remedial Education of the Russian Academy of Education, Moscow, Russia.
authors.forename: Galina V
authors.initials: GV
authors.lastname: Chirkina
authors.affiliation: Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA elena.grigorenko@yale.edu.
authors.forename: Elena L
authors.initials: EL
authors.lastname: Grigorenko
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002417:Cattle; D002648:Child; D004410:Dyslexia / Q000266:history*; D004519:Education, Special / Q000266:history*; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans; D007859:Learning Disabilities / Q000266:history*; D011643:Publishing / Q000266:history*; D014586:USSR; D014481:United States