Rather than constituting a problem for students and educators, the growing diversity in U.S. classrooms necessitates and encourages the development and use of diverse teaching strategies designed to respond to each student as an individual.
Damage to a discrete part of a the brain in the left frontal lobe (Brocaâs area) of the language-dominant hemisphere has been shown to significantly affect use of spontaneous speech and motor speech control. Words may be uttered very slowly and poorly articulated.
Speech and other language abilities are lateralized brain functions, meaning they are all located on one side of the brain. For most people, the left...