Language and learning disorders in handers children

Since a long time have been known some hypotheses scientific hypotheses that concern the brain asymmetry and functional hemispheric indecision that may characterize different language and learning disorders in handers subjects. Still today, however, these theories have not found solid proof in neuroscience’s and experimental psychology’s studies. For other reasons, if we look to recent studies on specific language impairment (SLI), or the observations of primary school teachers on children with specific learning disorder (SLD) or learning disabilities (LD), these effects seem to be pretty obvious. By administering of a structured questionnaire to a sample of Italian primary school teachers, in this study we’ll try to examine if lefthanders children that attend their classrooms have a higher percentage of language and/or learning disorders – such as dyslexia, dyscalculia and dysgraphia – compared right-handers children.