In a large study of children with injuries to the cerebral cortex that occurred before birth or in the first six months ?of life, where language and spatial skills were assessed repeatedly into adolescence,
A) the children showed language delays that persisted until about 3½ years of age.
B) recovery was greater for spatial skills than language abilities.
C) the brain-damaged children caught up to their peers in spatial skills only if the damage occurred in the right hemisphere.
D) the children who showed early language delays in the left hemisphere still had not caught up to their peers by age 5.
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