Effects of creative movement therapies on social communication, behavioral-affective, sensorimotor, cognitive, and functional participation skills of individuals with …

N Amonkar, WC Su, AN Bhat, SM Srinivasan - Frontiers in psychiatry, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is a neurodevelopmental disorder affecting multiple
developmental domains including social communication, behavioral-affective, sensorimotor …

Motor impairment increases in children with autism spectrum disorder as a function of social communication, cognitive and functional impairment, repetitive behavior …

AN Bhat - Autism research, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Eighty‐seven percent of a large sample of children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) are
at risk for motor impairment (Bhat, Physical Therapy, 2020, 100, 633–644). In spite of the …

Neural effects of physical activity and movement interventions in individuals with developmental disabilities–a systematic review

WC Su, N Amonkar, C Cleffi, S Srinivasan… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Individuals with developmental disabilities present with perceptuo-motor, social
communication, and cognitive impairments that often relate to underlying atypical brain …

Analysis of the SPARK study COVID‐19 parent survey: Early impact of the pandemic on access to services, child/parent mental health, and benefits of online services

A Bhat - Autism Research, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Children with ASD receive a multitude of educational, medical, and therapeutic services. At
the onset of the COVID‐19 pandemic, all of these services came to a complete halt following …

Multidimensional motor performance in children with autism mostly remains stable with age and predicts social communication delay, language delay, functional delay …

A Bhat - Autism Research, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
When motor difficulties continue into adolescence/adulthood, they could negatively impact
an individual with autism spectrum disorder (ASD)'s daily living skills, physical fitness, as …

A further study of relations between motor impairment and social communication, cognitive, language, functional impairments, and repetitive behavior severity in …

AN Bhat, AJ Boulton, DS Tulsky - Autism Research, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Motor impairments are pervasive and persistent in children with autism spectrum disorder
(ASD) throughout childhood and adolescence. Based on recent studies examining motor …

Using telehealth to conduct family-centered, movement intervention research in children with autism spectrum disorder during the COVID-19 pandemic

C Cleffi, WC Su, S Srinivasan, A Bhat - Pediatric Physical Therapy, 2022 - journals.lww.com
Purpose: After the COVID-19 pandemic, several randomized controlled trials came to a halt;
however, we chose to reinvent our study and shifted to a home-based, telehealth …

Cross‐replicating findings on unique motor impairments of children with ASD using confirmatory factor analysis and a novel SPARK study sample

A Bhat, DS Tulsky, AJ Boulton - Autism Research, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
A series of recent reports have shed light on the pervasive nature of motor impairments in
children with ASD (Bhat, 2020, 2021, Bhat et al., 2022), underscoring the importance of …

Autism-Related Differences in Cortical Activation When Observing, Producing, and Imitating Communicative Gestures: An fNIRS Study

WC Su, MK Culotta, J Mueller, D Tsuzuki, AN Bhat - Brain Sciences, 2023 - mdpi.com
Children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) have difficulties in gestural communication
during social interactions. However, the neural mechanisms involved in naturalistic gestural …

Learning an embodied visual language: Four imitation strategies available to sign learners

A Shield, RP Meier - Frontiers in Psychology, 2018 - frontiersin.org
The parts of the body that are used to produce and perceive signed languages (the hands,
face, and visual system) differ from those used to produce and perceive spoken languages …