Speech Perception by Left-handed Preschoolers with Different Types of Hemispheric Laterality

Abstract

Abstract The aim of the study was to examine the characteristics of speech perception while teaching a foreign language to left-handed preschoolers. The relevance of the study is based on the insufficient state of knowledge of the issue and a new approach to the issue of left-handedness. Currently, left-handed children are no longer retrained and that was the reason for creation of different educational technologies. The study used interesting methods of speech study: the differential hearing sensitivity determination technique by J.A. Vedenyapina, the dichotic listening technique by D. Kimura adapted by B.S. Kotik. Conclusively significant differences were found when we compared most of the indicators in the group of left-handed preschoolers with different types of Functional Brain Asymmetry (FBA). There were conclusively significant differences identified by comparing the left-handed and right-handed preschoolers with strong right hemispheric laterality at all levels of differential hearing sensitivity. The results can be used by teachers of various types of educational institutions, as well as the parents of left-handed children.