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Confessions of a schoolman—On dyslexia and laterality

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This paper relates the early work of Samuel Orton on cerebral dominance to the current neuropsychological concept of laterality as reciprocal functions of the two cerebral hemispheres. The genetic-cultural perspectives of laterality and functional asymmetry in relation to learning disorders are discussed. A balanced and integrative view of the cognitive contribution of the two hemispheres is needed.

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This is a modified version of an address given at the Spring Conference of the Upper Midwest Branch of The Orton Dyslexia Society in Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minnesota, April, 1982.

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Leong, C.K. Confessions of a schoolman—On dyslexia and laterality. Annals of Dyslexia 34, 15–27 (1984). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02663611

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