baby brains and you
Dec. 1st, 2003 09:22 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
novapsycheBrain Scan Clue to Delayed Speech
Miami Children's Hospital used sophisticated MRI scans to compare the brains of children with and without speech problems.
More activity was found on the right side of the brains of children with delayed speech. The others tended to use the left side.
[...] The researchers also found that the children with delayed speech had less total brain activity.
This, they suggest, indicates that they are less stimulated by language than normal.
[...] [Sue Roulstone, of the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists] said the left side of the brain was thought to be closely linked to processing of language.
However, she said the fact that children with speech problems appeared to be using the right side of their brains to "listen" was not necessarily a bad thing.
It may indicate that their brains had taken steps to overcome difficulties with the more usual language processing centres.
"They may be engaging some other part of the brain to assist with the process of understanding language," she said.
Miami Children's Hospital used sophisticated MRI scans to compare the brains of children with and without speech problems.
More activity was found on the right side of the brains of children with delayed speech. The others tended to use the left side.
[...] The researchers also found that the children with delayed speech had less total brain activity.
This, they suggest, indicates that they are less stimulated by language than normal.
[...] [Sue Roulstone, of the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists] said the left side of the brain was thought to be closely linked to processing of language.
However, she said the fact that children with speech problems appeared to be using the right side of their brains to "listen" was not necessarily a bad thing.
It may indicate that their brains had taken steps to overcome difficulties with the more usual language processing centres.
"They may be engaging some other part of the brain to assist with the process of understanding language," she said.