Comparative analysis of neuropsychological development in bilingual and monolingual children from urban and rural zones from Arequipa according to laterality

In the present paper, we analyze the differences in the neuropsychological development according to hand, foot and eye laterality. We assessed 140 children with 76 month average of age, both sexes, monolingual and bilingual and settled in urban and rural zones from Arequipa. The Children Neuropsychological Development Questionnaire by Portellano et al. (2000) was applied. The results indicate that there are not significant differences in the neuropsychological development of the children according to hand and foot laterality, but there were significant differences according to eye laterality in the articulated language.