Evidence that Speech Delayed Children are More Right-Brained
From Science Blog (May 2003):
Children with unusually delayed speech tend to listen with the right side of the brain rather than the left side of the brain, according to a study published in the December issue of the journal Radiology. Preliminary study results were presented at the Radiological Society of North America's (RSNA) Annual Meeting in 2002.
Scientists compared 17 sedated speech-delayed (2 to 8 year old) children with 35 controls. The full article is available to subscribers only. For our purposes, we'll use some of the terminology-clarifying introduction:
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