Basic reading skills and dyslexia: Three decades following right versus left hemispherectomy for childhood-onset intractable epilepsy

Epilepsy and Behavior

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 470-475

  Cummine, Jacqueline ^a   Borowsky, Ron ^a   Winder, Fern Stockdale ^b   Crossley, Margaret ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

^b SASKATOON HEALTH REGION   (Canada)

Author keywords

Dyslexia; Epilepsy; Hemispherectomy; Language functioning; Reading; Social cognition; Subword; Whole word

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CHILD CARE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; DYSLEXIA; FEMALE; HEMISPHERECTOMY; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; INTRACTABLE EPILEPSY; ONSET AGE; PHONETICS; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; SPEECH ARTICULATION;

DRUG RESISTANCE; DYSLEXIA; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; READING;

EID: 68049105106     PISSN: 15255050     EISSN: 15255069     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yebeh.2009.05.018     Document Type: Article

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