Dichotic consonant-vowel (CV) testing in the diagnosis of learning disabilities in children.

The performance of normal and learning-disabled children on a dichotic listening task using 30 paired consonant-vowel (CV) syllables was investigated in a series of studies. The effects of gender, developmental level, and prestimulus cuing on assessed auditory asymmetries were examined. In addition to providing normative data, the results of these studies are discussed as they relate to theoretical notions of cerebral asymmetries in normal and learning-disabled children and as they pertain to clinical diagnosis of childhood learning disabilities.