Morange-Majoux, Françoise

Motor Function and Handedness in Infants with Autism Spectrum Disorder: A New Approach for the Exploration of Disorders, Based On a Literature Review - 2016.


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Autism spectrum disorders are present in the first months of life and consist of both communication and social interaction disorders, and of limited and repetitive behaviors. Besides these major disorders, infants with autism develop left-handedness more often than typical people, and this specific feature has never been studied from a manual specialization development point of view, linked to a possible hemispheric specialization disorder. The objective of this paper was to examine international works about relationships between hand preference and language and early dysfunction between manual and hemispheric specialization in autism.