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phylny

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Fri Feb-17-06 06:58 PM
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81. Interestingly enough (and I hope on-topic enough) not only are those

connections pruned, but they're taken over by other sensory neurons. Hearing impaired children will have the auditory part of their brains taken over by more visual pathways, visually impaired kids will lose the visual portion of the brain to auditory and sensory (touch) brain matter.

It's why it's really, really important to get language (any kind of language) into a child YOUNG.

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