Examined the conversational patterns of older children with their younger siblings. Findings reveal that the siblings of disabled children appeared to be less conversationally sensitive with their brothers and sisters than the siblings of nondisabled children. (34 references) (Author/CK)

Describes the various anomalies which occur in people's writing when there is right brain damage; compares writing impairments to the reading and drawing impairments that these patients also show. Analyzes the phenomenom of unilateral visual neglect and suggests hypotheses as to the nature of this disorder. (SED)

Examined mothers' accuracy in predicting the responses their children gave and the scores they achieved on two standardized vocabulary tests. Findings indicate that the overall estimates by mothers of language-impaired children were more accurate than those by mothers of language-normal children. (28 references) (Author/CK)

Two studies evaluated the interhemispheric transmission deficit explanation of reading disability by comparing second- and sixth-grade normal and poor readers on learning and discrimination tasks involving hemispheric presentations of visual stimuli. Results suggested verbal processing rather than interhemispheric transmission as a cause of group…

Proposes a theoretical information-processing-based neuropsychological model of writing and oral spelling which contains linguistic and motor components and which helps explain agraphia independently of other language disorders. Disruption of the phonological system is thought to cause phonological agraphia. Disruption of the lexical system is…