title: Brief Report: Non-right-Handedness Within the Autism Spectrum Disorder.
abstract: A larger distribution of left-handedness in the population of Autism Spectrum Disorder has been repeatedly reported. Despite of this, the sample sizes in the individual study's are too small for any generalization to be made. Using both description-based and citation-based searches, the present review combines the individual results in order to examine whether non-right-handedness is a general trait of the autism spectrum disorder. With a relatively large combined sample size (N = 497), it can be concluded that the distribution of non-right-handedness is significantly greater within the autism spectrum disorder population, compared with the population in general.
authors.affiliation: Department of Health Science, Sør-Trøndelag University College, P.O. Box 2320, 7004, Trondheim, Norway. rysstad.anne@gmail.com.
authors.forename: Anne Langseth
authors.initials: AL
authors.lastname: Rysstad
authors.affiliation: Department of Health Science, Sør-Trøndelag University College, P.O. Box 2320, 7004, Trondheim, Norway. arve.pedersen@hist.no.
authors.forename: Arve Vorland
authors.initials: AV
authors.lastname: Pedersen
mesh_terms: D000067877:Autism Spectrum Disorder / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000523:psychology*; D007839:Functional Laterality / Q000502:physiology; D006801:Humans; D010641:Phenotype; D018401:Sample Size
keywords: Autism; Autism spectrum disorder; Handedness; Lateralization; Left-handedness; Non-right-handedness