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.
In 1861, while Abraham Lincoln was penning his famous inauguration address, French neurologist Pierre Paul Broca was busy discovering the parts of the brain behind Lincolnâs speechâthe parts that handle language processing, comprehension and speech production (along with controlling facial neurons).