The Relationship of Handedness to the Cognitive, Language, and Visuo-Spatial Skills of Autistic Patients
- 1 February 1983
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Royal College of Psychiatrists in The British Journal of Psychiatry
- Vol. 142 (2) , 156-162
- https://doi.org/10.1192/bjp.142.2.156
Abstract
Summary: The relationship between hand preference, age, and developmental functioning was examined in 70 autistic patients. Unilateral or mixed handedness appeared to be stabilized by the age of five years. Patients with established hand lateralization tended to function better in all developmental areas including intelligence, language, and visuospatial abilities. It is a tenable hypothesis that the presence or absence of hand lateralization by age five may be an important predictor of outcome in autism.This publication has 20 references indexed in Scilit:
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