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.

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