Abstract
This study was designed to determine whether deficits in right-left discrimination persisted in a sample of older learning-disabled subjects, and whether there was a differentiation in verbal tasks of disturbance of right-left discrimination to self or on a confronting person, or on a spatial task of right-left discrimination. The subjects were 35 right handed boys aged 10 to 12 years. This group was comprised of 15 learning disabled boys with a low verbal/high performance IQ profile, and 20 normal control boys. The learning disabled subjects scored significantly more poorly than the normal control subjects on all tasks except right-left discrimination to one's own body. The task Double Command to Self (e.g. “Put your left hand on your left ear”) best predicted group. Results were discussed in terms of persistent right-left discrimination deficits in at least some types of learning disabilities. The need to evaluate right-left discrimination in a more comprehensive manner was emphasized.
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