An analysis of laterality confusion with bright (grades K – 3) and age-to-grade matched educable mental retardates suggests that (1) confusion is related principally to chronological age, and broadly, to intelligence, (2) rate of decline in laterality confusion is not different for the two groups, and (3) measures of language and achievement are only moderately related to laterality confusion—reading in particular, is not.
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