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Peer reviewedStellern, John; And Others – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 1987
Investigation of the language-spatial lateralization of 76 intermediate grade right-handed regular education students found that "good" students had normal left hemisphere language and right hemisphere spatial lateralization but "poor" students had nonnormal lateralization. Academic problems and behavior problems were correlated with nonnormal…
Descriptors: Brain Hemisphere Functions, Intermediate Grades, Language Skills, Learning Disabilities
Peer reviewedEden, Guinevere F.; Wood, Frank B.; Stein, John F. – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2003
A study involving 93 children (ages 10-12), 295 with poor reading skills, found many children with dyslexia and some garden-variety poor readers showed significant left neglect on the Clock Drawing Test. In poor readers with dyslexia, spatial construction deficits were observed like those of parents with acquired right-hemisphere lesions.…
Descriptors: Brain Hemisphere Functions, Dyslexia, Elementary Education, Etiology
