- Title
- Language and reading impairments are associated with increased prevalence of non-right-handedness
- Creator
- Abbondanza, Filippo; Dale, Philip S.; Guger, Sharon L.; Lovett, Maureen W.; Strug, Lisa J.; van Bergen, Elsje; Dolan, Conor V.; Tomblin, J. Bruce; Moll, Kristina; Schulte-Körne, Gerd; Neuhoff, Nina; Warnke, Andreas; Wang, Carol A.; Fisher, SE; Barr, CL; Michaelson, JJ; Boomsma, DI; Snowling, MJ; Hulme, C; Whitehouse, AJO; Pennell, CE; Newbury, DF; Stein, J; Hayiou-Thomas, Marianna E.; Talcott, JB; Bishop, DVM; Paracchini, S; Toseeb, Umar; Koomar, Tanner S.; Wigg, Karen G.; Feng, Yu; Price, Kaitlyn M.; Kerr, Elizabeth N.
- Relation
- Child Development Vol. 94, Issue 4, p. 970-984
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/cdev.13914
- Publisher
- Wiley-Blackwell
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2023
- Description
- Handedness has been studied for association with language-related disorders because of its link with language hemispheric dominance. No clear pattern has emerged, possibly because of small samples, publication bias, and heterogeneous criteria across studies. Non-right-handedness (NRH) frequency was assessed in N = 2503 cases with reading and/or language impairment and N = 4316 sex-matched controls identified from 10 distinct cohorts (age range 6-19 years old; European ethnicity) using a priori set criteria. A meta-analysis (Ncases = 1994) showed elevated NRH % in individuals with language/reading impairment compared with controls (OR = 1.21, CI = 1.06-1.39, p = .01). The association between reading/language impairments and NRH could result from shared pathways underlying brain lateralization, handedness, and cognitive functions.
- Subject
- handedness; language-related disorders; Non-right-handedness; reading impairments; language impairments
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1482552
- Identifier
- uon:50974
- Identifier
- ISSN:0009-3920
- Language
- eng
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