A child who experiences head trauma and brain damage to the left hemisphere may not experience lifelong language deficits because
A) the brain remains flexible or malleable through childhood.
B) neural plasticity allows lost functions to be recovered.
C) the right hemisphere may take over the work of language specialization.
D) all of the above
D) all of the above. Because a child's brain has a high degree of neural plasticity, a function that is lost due to trauma or damage may be recovered in another area or region of the brain.
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