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The problem of language impairment in children with focal brain lesion is complex. It involves many variables such as age and modality of onset, type and size of lesion and finally side and localization. According to this, 2 groups of children, who suffered from vascular accidents were selected. The time of acquisition was classified as “early” (before language acquisition) and “late” (after language acquisition). Results indicate that right as well left lesioned children perform worse than controls in lexical tests, while left lesioned ones perform worse in lexical and syntactic tasks. The influence of age at lesion, lesion size and epilepsy are discussed.
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Riva, D., Pantaleoni, C., Milani, N., Devoti, M. (1991). Late Sequelae of Right Versus Left Hemispheric Lesions. In: Martins, I.P., Castro-Caldas, A., van Dongen, H.R., van Hout, A. (eds) Acquired Aphasia in Children. NATO ASI Series, vol 60. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-3582-5_17
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