title: Hemispheric function in developmental language disorders and high-level autism.
abstract: Two groups of children with contrasting types of developmental language disorder (phonologic-syntactic and semantic-pragmatic) were compared with a group of children with high-level autism and with a control group of normal children on a broad battery of neuropsychological tests, known to be sensitive to left-right hemisphere damage. Significant differences found between the groups suggest contrasting forms of hemispheric dysfunction.
authors.affiliation: Storm House School, National Autistic Society, Doncaster, UK.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Shields
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Varley
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Broks
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Simpson
mesh_terms: D000704:Analysis of Variance; D001321:Autistic Disorder / Q000503:physiopathology*; D001921:Brain / Q000503:physiopathology*; D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007805:Language Development Disorders / Q000503:physiopathology*; D007807:Language Tests; D008037:Linguistics; D008297:Male; D010700:Phonetics; D012660:Semantics