Visual agnosia with bilateral temporo-occipital brain lesions in a child with autistic disorder: A case study

Abstract

A 2-year-old boy meeting the criteria for autistic disorder was diagnosed and years later with a visual agnosia characterised by a combination of certain aspects of associative and apperceptive agnosia, MRI then revealed a severe encephalomalacia of the right temporal lobe and bilateral temporo-occipital areas. This association is discussed in terms of a clinical and aetiological relation between autistic disorder and visual agnosia.