Finally, it would appear to be a literal truth that, as a society, we are becoming more like individuals with right hemisphere deficits. Anecdotal evidence from the teaching profession suggests that between a quarter and a third of children aged as old as five to seven are now having to be taught how to read the human face, something that until recently would have been necessary only in the case of children with autism. And about a third of all children now have difficulty carrying out tasks that a decade ago virtually every child in a mainstream school would have been able to do easily –
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