Prevalence of motor tests in autism spectrum disorder people

Abstract

In autism spectrum disorder, studies have in social communication, in their interest, education and social/educational inclusion with children and adolescents with aspects studied for this even larger audience is very scarce, observing a gap in the literature regarding this population. This work aims through a bibliographic survey to describe the tests that are being used in autism, as their advantages and objectives, are shown as evidence of study among them. The research was carried out in the Bireme and Pubmed databases with the descriptors “assessing motor autism”, “assessing motor skill performance and autism” and “assessing the development of physical fitness and autism”. the search resulted in 846 studies, after excluding duplicates, 823 articles remained. After reading the titles and abstracts, 703 studies were excluded and after applying the inclusion and exclusion criteria, 16 articles were included in this review. have similarities with each other, such as some ages and some tests such as: delineating the trail, basting a cord that is manual dexterity, grabbing and dribbling a ball and very similar tests such as walking under a line, jumping on one foot only in displacement, among others. We conclude that the tests available in the market are expensive for professionals and that each one evaluates more a specific skill for gaps in the estimates.