ABSTRACT
Good physical health is essential for good mental health, and efficient response to stimulation and learning situations. Facial and occasionally body asymmetry, anomalies in muscle tone, bilateral variations in responses to sensory stimulation, mild dysphasias and agnosias may be additional characteristics. Left-right confusions and evidence of delayed establishment of cerebral dominance are frequent. Reading is a difficult perceptual task and it is surprising how the majority of children appear to master it with such apparent ease. However, because of the perceptual skills involved any diagnosis of reading disability must include an evaluation of the child’s level of perceptual development or degrees of impairment. A disability in any of the three components of this system is likely to result in perceptual impairment or anomalous development. The importance of relating perceptual development to this system becomes even more apparent when attempts are made to direct perception in a meaningful way.
