Left-handedness in blind and sighted children

Laterality

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 205-213

  Caliskan, Erkan ^a   Dane, Senol ^a  

^a ATATÜRK UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Blind; Children; Left handedness

Indexed keywords

BLINDNESS; CHILD; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE;

EID: 62249112854     PISSN: 1357650X     EISSN: 14640678     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13576500802586251     Document Type: Article

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