A 7-year-old girl presented with a language disorder reminiscent of verbal auditory agnosia. Later, she proved to have defective N-acetylglucosamine-6-sulfate sulfatase, the enzyme deficient in Sanfilippo D syndrome. She did not show clinical features of mucopolysaccharidosis. The language disorder had a fluctuating course, which eventually evolved into a progressive dementing encephalopathy. (J Child Neurol 1994;9:408-411).
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