Hemispheric function in developmental language disorders and high-level autism.
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.
Shields
J
J
Storm House School, National Autistic Society, Doncaster, UK.
Varley
R
R
Broks
P
P
Simpson
A
A
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