Dichotic listening in children with serious language problems.
20 children with serious language problems (mainly expressive) were tested with the Dichotic Listening (DL) test for language laterality. 16 were right-handed and 4 left-handed. The dichotic test consisted of series of pairwise presentations of CVC-syllables with "target-syllables" that should be detected interspersed among "distractors." The child pointed to a sheet of paper on which a picture representing the targets (and distractors) was printed. In addition, the children were tested on several expressive and impressive language tests and on finger-tapping. Analysis showed an increased frequency of subjects with a left-ear advantage (LEA) and a reduced amplitude of the right-ear advantage (REA) for those subjects showing a right-ear advantage. Correlations with the language variables and with finger-tapping are presented and discussed.
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Department of Education, University of Oslo, Norway.
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Marklund
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D001288:Attention; D002648:Child; D004007:Dichotic Listening Tests; D004292:Dominance, Cerebral; D005260:Female; D006320:Hearing Tests; D006801:Humans; D007805:Language Development Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000523:psychology; D008297:Male; D008570:Memory, Short-Term; D010700:Phonetics; D000091402:Prohibitins; D013067:Speech Perception; D014825:Vocabulary