Unilateral XXXX in childhood: performance on the @entity1062 .

@entity1 @entity75 @entity1062
Comprehension of connected language as assessed by the @entity1062 ( @entity1062 ) was studied in 17 @entity1 with left hemisphere lesions (LL) and 11 with right hemisphere lesions (RL). LL @entity1 's significantly lower performance on several subtests than left controls (LC) matched by age, sex, race, and social class appeared to be related to the memory demands of these subtests rather than the limited syntactic elements assessed by the @entity1062 . LL subjects requested significantly more command repetitions than control or RL subjects and when a repetition was not requested LL subjects often responded with immediacy. Although RL @entity1 tended to perform lower than right matched controls (RC), these differences were not significant nor readily related to either the memory or specific linguistic structures assessed. RL subjects required fewer command repetitions than LL subjects and exhibited a significantly greater frequency of immediate responses than controls or LL subjects. While based on few @entity1 , a trend for LL @entity1 with retrorolandic lesions to perform more poorly than those with @entity75 was suggested. No systematic difference in performance was apparent for @entity1 with left cortical vs. left @entity75 or among discrete sites of lesions within the right hemisphere. @entity1 with left lesions prior to 1 year of age performed no better and, in several instances, significantly poorer than LL @entity1 sustaining lesions after 1 year of age. Among RL subjects, those sustaining lesions after 1 year of age had greater difficulty than those with lesion onset before 1 year of age, especially on linguistic elements which seemed to be dependent upon visual spatial properties. Further studies are needed to evaluate the comprehension of more complex linguistic structures among @entity1 with unilateral @entity75 as well as to study the role of more basic factors such as memory and attention in explaining the present findings.
