Motor Skills in Children Aged 7–10 Years, Diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder

Whyatt, Caroline; Craig, Cathy

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“…This tighter coupling, in turn, becomes manifest as faster postural adjustments. This notion is consistent with recent suggestions [12,30] that children with ASD have deficits in anticipatory control involving tasks where perception needs to be coupled to action, which, we argue, could entail a more reactive (vision-based) postural control strategy. Standing with eyes closed might necessitate a shift from a reactive (predominantly vision based) control strategy to a feedforward strategy, based on anticipation of postural consequences of motor adjustments.…”

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“…Even though there were clear main effects of cognitive dual tasking on COP parameters, the effects hardly differentiated between the groups, suggesting that the attentional regulation of balance was mildly affected in our ASD sample. We found clear effects of vision on balance, suggesting a greater reliance on vision in ASD than controls, which could be due to superiority in visual information processing and deficits in perception-action coupling [12].…”

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“…Our participants were mildly autistic, so motor problems were probably in the sub-clinical domain, making it harder to detect these with a coarse-grained measure such as the M-ABC. Interestingly, a study by [12] involved an in-depth analysis of M-ABC2 scores, and it was found that children with autism scored significantly worse than matched controls on only 2 of the 8 subtests of the M-ABC2, namely static balance, and ball catching (not tested by us). The authors suggested that movement abnormalities in ASD reside predominantly in static balance performance, as this involves rapid online adjustments to subtle changes in posture.…”

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“…Standing with eyes closed might necessitate a shift from a reactive (predominantly vision based) control strategy to a feedforward strategy, based on anticipation of postural consequences of motor adjustments. If it is true that this latter type of control is poorly developed in ASD [12,30], this would explain the destabilizing effects of standing with eyes closed.…”

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“…Balance problems in children with ASD have been found using standardized instruments, in particular the Movement Assessment Battery for Children (M-ABC) [11,12]. Poorly developed balance skills in children -regardless of pathology -may reduce the capability to develop more complicated movement skills, which, in turn, may hamper social development and the willingness to participate in sports [13].…”

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Individuals with autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) have known impairments in social and motor skills. Identifying putative underlying mechanisms of these impairments could lead to improved understanding of the etiology of core social/communicative deficits in ASDs, and identification of novel intervention targets. The ability to perceptually integrate one's physical capacities with one's environment (affordance perception) may be such a mechanism. This ability has been theorized to be impaired in ASDs, but this question has never been directly tested. Crucially, affordance perception has shown to be amenable to learning; thus, if it is implicated in deficits in ASDs, it may be a valuable unexplored intervention target. The present study compared affordance perception in adolescents and adults with ASDs to typically developing (TD) controls. Two groups of individuals (adolescents and adults) with ASDs and age‐matched TD controls completed well‐established action capability estimation tasks (reachability, graspability, and aperture passability). Their caregivers completed a measure of their lifetime social/communicative deficits. Compared with controls, individuals with ASDs showed unprecedented gross impairments in relating information about their bodies' action capabilities to visual information specifying the environment. The magnitude of these deficits strongly predicted the magnitude of social/communicative impairments in individuals with ASDs. Thus, social/communicative impairments in ASDs may derive, at least in part, from deficits in basic perceptual–motor processes (e.g. action capability estimation). Such deficits may impair the ability to maintain and calibrate the relationship between oneself and one's social and physical environments, and present fruitful, novel, and unexplored target for intervention. Autism Res 2012,5:352–362. © 2012 International Society for Autism Research, Wiley Periodicals, Inc.

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Comparing Motor Skills in Autism Spectrum Individuals With and Without Speech Delay

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Movement atypicalities in speed, coordination, posture, and gait have been observed across the autism spectrum (AS) and atypicalities in coordination are more commonly observed in AS individuals without delayed speech (DSM‐IV Asperger) than in those with atypical or delayed speech onset. However, few studies have provided quantitative data to support these mostly clinical observations. Here, we compared perceptual and motor performance between 30 typically developing and AS individuals (21 with speech delay and 18 without speech delay) to examine the associations between limb movement control and atypical speech development. Groups were matched for age, intelligence, and sex. The experimental design included: an inspection time task, which measures visual processing speed; the Purdue Pegboard, which measures finger dexterity, bimanual performance, and hand‐eye coordination; the Annett Peg Moving Task, which measures unimanual goal‐directed arm movement; and a simple reaction time task. We used analysis of covariance to investigate group differences in task performance and linear regression models to explore potential associations between intelligence, language skills, simple reaction time, and visually guided movement performance. AS participants without speech delay performed slower than typical participants in the Purdue Pegboard subtests. AS participants without speech delay showed poorer bimanual coordination than those with speech delay. Visual processing speed was slightly faster in both AS groups than in the typical group. Altogether, these results suggest that AS individuals with and without speech delay differ in visually guided and visually triggered behavior and show that early language skills are associated with slower movement in simple and complex motor tasks. Autism Res 2015, 8: 682–693. © 2015 The Authors Autism Research published by Wiley Periodicals, Inc. on behalf of International Society for Autism Research

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Motor Skills in Children Aged 7–10 Years, Diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder

Cited by 205 publications

References 21 publications

Attentional and sensory contributions to postural sway in children with autism spectrum disorder

Attentional and sensory contributions to postural sway in children with autism spectrum disorder

A Perceptual–Motor Deficit Predicts Social and Communicative Impairments in Individuals With Autism Spectrum Disorders

Comparing Motor Skills in Autism Spectrum Individuals With and Without Speech Delay

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