In a Large Study of Children with Injuries to the Cerebral

Multiple Choice

In a large study of children with injuries to the cerebral cortex that occurred around the time of birth or in the first six months of life,researchers found that __________.

A) language functioning was highly lateralized from birth to age 5
B) compared with spatial skills, language skills were more impaired after early brain injury
C) undamaged areas-in either the left or the right hemisphere-took over certain language functions
D) children never fully caught up in vocabulary or grammatical skills