Types of Dyslexia and the shift to dextrality
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The right shift theory of handedness predicts two types of dyslexia with different distributions of handedness. This theory when tested on a sample of school students shows that dyslexics with poor phonology are less dextran than controls. Dyslexics, without poor phonology are however, more dextral than controls on measures of hand preference and hand skill. Relatives also differed for handedness as expected, if the relatives of phonological dyslexics are less likely to carry the rs+ gene.
Publication Name: Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry and Allied Disciplines
Subject: Psychology and mental health
ISSN: 0021-9630
Year: 1996
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Phonology and handedness in primary school: Predictions of the right shift theory
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The right shift (RS) theory of handedness suggests that poor phonology might occur in the general population as a risk associated with absence of an agent of left cerebral speech, the hypothesized RS + gene. Poor phonological processing is associated with reduced bias to the right hand, consistent with absence of an agent of left hemisphere advantage.
Publication Name: Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry
Subject: Psychology and mental health
ISSN: 0021-9630
Year: 2006
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Current conceptualisation of body image dissatisfaction: Have we got it wrong?
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The prevalence of body image dissatisfaction within two developmental periods, childhood and adolescence is examined. The body image dissatisfaction differs significantly depending upon sex and body mass.
Publication Name: Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry
Subject: Psychology and mental health
ISSN: 0021-9630
Year: 2004
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