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Comment author: Swimmer963 08 July 2012 01:34:41AM 2 points [-]

A child with half of their brain missing would be expected to be extraordinarily impaired. A simple search of the literature should prove it one way or another.

According to this, a child with half of their brain removed can sometimes do just fine. It has a lot to do with age, though, given that children have more neuroplasticity–a fully functioning adult would probably lose a lot of their normal abilities.