Hemispheric Speech Lateralization in Children with Auditory-Linguistic Deficits

Twenty-four children with learning problems not attributable to general intellectual, psychiatric, medical, or environmental factors, and clinically assessed as having deficits in auditory-linguistic skills, plus 24 normal children were tested with a verbal dichotic listening task. It was hypothesized that the learning-impaired children have atypical hemispheric speech lateralization which would be reflected in their performance on the dichotic …