Specialisation for verbal-sequential analysis in ‘dyslexics’, poor readers and matched adequate readers was investigated. Groups did not differ on degree of right-ear advantage on the dichotic digits task, suggesting that the poor readers processed digits in the left hemisphere in a similar way to children who read normally. Th results cast doubt on theories that ‘dyslexia’ is related to incomplete lateralisation for verbal analysis.
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