Identification, evaluation, and management of children with autism spectrum disorder

SL Hyman, SE Levy, SM Myers, DZ Kuo, S Apkon… - …, 2020 - publications.aap.org
Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a common neurodevelopmental disorder with reported
prevalence in the United States of 1 in 59 children (approximately 1.7%). Core deficits are …

Motor skill differences in autism spectrum disorder: A clinically focused review

CJ Zampella, LAL Wang, M Haley… - Current psychiatry …, 2021 - Springer
Abstract Purpose of Review This review synthesizes recent, clinically relevant findings on
the scope, significance, and centrality of motor skill differences in autism spectrum disorder …

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 …

Is motor impairment in autism spectrum disorder distinct from developmental coordination disorder? A report from the SPARK study

AN Bhat - Physical therapy, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Background Motor impairments are pervasive in Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD); however,
children with ASD rarely receive a dual diagnosis of Developmental Coordination Disorder …

Comparing motor performance, praxis, coordination, and interpersonal synchrony between children with and without Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD)

M Kaur, SM Srinivasan, AN Bhat - Research in developmental disabilities, 2018 - Elsevier
Abstract Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) have basic motor impairments in
balance, gait, and coordination as well as autism-specific impairments in praxis/motor …

Gross motor impairment and its relation to social skills in autism spectrum disorder: A systematic review and two meta-analyses.

LAL Wang, V Petrulla, CJ Zampella, R Waller… - Psychological …, 2022 - psycnet.apa.org
Gross motor ability is associated with profound differences in how children experience and
interact with their social world. A rapidly growing literature on motor development in autism …

The impacts of physical activity intervention on physical and cognitive outcomes in children with autism spectrum disorder

CY Pan, CH Chu, CL Tsai, MC Sung, CY Huang… - …, 2017 - journals.sagepub.com
This study examined the effects of a 12-week physical activity intervention on the motor skill
proficiency and executive function of 22 boys (aged 9.08±1.75 years) with autism spectrum …

Use of machine learning to identify children with autism and their motor abnormalities

A Crippa, C Salvatore, P Perego, S Forti… - Journal of autism and …, 2015 - Springer
In the present work, we have undertaken a proof-of-concept study to determine whether a
simple upper-limb movement could be useful to accurately classify low-functioning children …

Shared features or co-occurrence? Evaluating symptoms of developmental coordination disorder in children and adolescents with autism spectrum disorder

HL Miller, GM Sherrod, JE Mauk, NE Fears… - Journal of autism and …, 2021 - Springer
Motor differences are common in Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), but rarely evaluated
against diagnostic criteria for Developmental Coordination Disorder (DCD). We aimed to …

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 …