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.
Wernicke's area, also called Wernicke's speech area, is one of the two parts of the cerebral cortex that are linked to speech. It is involved in the comprehension or understanding of written and spoken language. It is traditionally thought to be in Brodmann area 22, which is located in the posterior section of the superior temporal gyrus in the dominant cerebral hemisphere. Damage caused to Wernicke's area results in receptive, fluent aphasia. This means that the person with aphasia will be able