Left-Handed Preschool Children with Orthopedic Disabilities.

Banham, Katharine M.

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ERIC Number: EJ279598

Record Type: CIJE

Publication Date: 1983

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Left-Handed Preschool Children with Orthopedic Disabilities.

Banham, Katharine M.

Rehabilitation Literature, v44 n1-2 p23-26 Jan-Feb 1983

The mental development of 332 preschool-age children with orthopedic disabilities was assessed at a children's hospital over a 10-year period, and comparisons were made for right-handed and left-handed. The left-handed children were slower than right-handed children in learning speech and language skills (Author/SEW)

Descriptors: Cerebral Palsy, Intelligence Quotient, Language Skills, Lateral Dominance, Left Handed Writer, Physical Disabilities, Preschool Children, Racial Differences, Sex Differences, Speech Skills, Verbal Ability

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research

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Language: English

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