The relationship between the motor skills level and the severity of autism disorder in children with autism
Study Goals
This study looked at how children aged 3–16 years old's degree of autism related to their fine motor, gross motor, and general motor ability.
Important Insights
1. Motor Skills Affect Autism Severity: Children with worse motor skills often exhibit more severe autistic symptoms.
Among all the elements of motor ability, general motor proficiency is the most powerful predictor of autism severity and behaviors including social interaction, communication, and stereotyping.
3. The Value of Intervention: Enhancing motor skills might have more general advantages and enable kids with autism improved social and communication skills.
Our Actions
Users
This research included 68 autistic children ranging in age from three to sixteen.
Test Instruments Applied
Measuring autism degree depending on stereotypes, social skills, and communication, Gilliam Autism Rating Scale-2 (GARS-2)
2. Children's Motor Assessment Battery (MABC-2) - assessed gross motor abilities, fine motor skills, and general motor competency.
Experts evaluated motor skills while parents and instructors answered autistic symptom questionnaires.
Our Findings
With almost 92% of children falling in the "red zone," meaning significant motor skill difficulties, high prevalence of motor deficits exists.
Based on GARS-2 findings, 75.7% of the children fell under the category of having severe autism.
3. Relationship among autism and motor skills
- Fine motor skills Moderate negative correlation with degree of autism.
Gross motor skills are stronger unfavorable correlation regarding autism degree.
Motor competency Among all the elements evaluated, strongest indicator of autism severity.
Why it Matters
Better motor skills might let youngsters with autism participate socially and speak more successfully. This influences their ability.
Targeted motor skill training, aquatic therapy, and horseback riding among other activities might help with motor skills and maybe other autistic symptoms.
Further study is required to verify if therapies involving motor skills may directly reduce autistic symptoms.
Apart from other treatments, comprehensive rehabilitation programs should include improvement of motor skills.
Notes
- Symptoms of autism are intimately related to motor abilities.
In particular: - Helping children with autism in their general development may depend on increasing motor skills.
Please click the link below for comprehensive study material on the association between the degree of autism-disorder-in-children-with-autism and the motor-skills level.
This study looked at how children aged 3–16 years old's degree of autism related to their fine motor, gross motor, and general motor ability.
Important Insights
1. Motor Skills Affect Autism Severity: Children with worse motor skills often exhibit more severe autistic symptoms.
Among all the elements of motor ability, general motor proficiency is the most powerful predictor of autism severity and behaviors including social interaction, communication, and stereotyping.
3. The Value of Intervention: Enhancing motor skills might have more general advantages and enable kids with autism improved social and communication skills.
Our Actions
Users
This research included 68 autistic children ranging in age from three to sixteen.
Test Instruments Applied
Measuring autism degree depending on stereotypes, social skills, and communication, Gilliam Autism Rating Scale-2 (GARS-2)
2. Children's Motor Assessment Battery (MABC-2) - assessed gross motor abilities, fine motor skills, and general motor competency.
Experts evaluated motor skills while parents and instructors answered autistic symptom questionnaires.
Our Findings
With almost 92% of children falling in the "red zone," meaning significant motor skill difficulties, high prevalence of motor deficits exists.
Based on GARS-2 findings, 75.7% of the children fell under the category of having severe autism.
3. Relationship among autism and motor skills
- Fine motor skills Moderate negative correlation with degree of autism.
Gross motor skills are stronger unfavorable correlation regarding autism degree.
Motor competency Among all the elements evaluated, strongest indicator of autism severity.
Why it Matters
Better motor skills might let youngsters with autism participate socially and speak more successfully. This influences their ability.
Targeted motor skill training, aquatic therapy, and horseback riding among other activities might help with motor skills and maybe other autistic symptoms.
Further study is required to verify if therapies involving motor skills may directly reduce autistic symptoms.
Apart from other treatments, comprehensive rehabilitation programs should include improvement of motor skills.
Notes
- Symptoms of autism are intimately related to motor abilities.
In particular: - Helping children with autism in their general development may depend on increasing motor skills.
Please click the link below for comprehensive study material on the association between the degree of autism-disorder-in-children-with-autism and the motor-skills level.