Hemispheric routing of tactilely delivered words for dyslexic males.
This investigation sought to determine the effect of delivering unknown spelling words via a tactile modality to the left and right cerebral hemispheres of 10 dyslexic boys of about 14 yr. of age whose vision was occluded during word palpation. More words were learned through either condition of right- and left-hand delivery than control words. Spelling meaningful words when vision is occluded can be accomplished by either hand delivery for older dyslexic boys.
D000293:Adolescent; D002648:Child; D004193:Discrimination Learning; D004292:Dominance, Cerebral; D004410:Dyslexia / Q000523:psychology*; D007839:Functional Laterality; D006801:Humans; D007699:Kinesthesis; D008297:Male; D012660:Semantics; D013236:Stereognosis; D014110:Touch