Associations of postural knowledge and basic motor skill with dyspraxia in autism: implication for abnormalities in distributed connectivity and motor learning.

LR Dowell, EM Mahone, SH Mostofsky - Neuropsychology, 2009 - psycnet.apa.org
Children with autism often have difficulty performing skilled movements. Praxis performance
requires basic motor skill, knowledge of representations of the movement (mediated by …

Perception of biological motion in autism spectrum disorders

CM Freitag, C Konrad, M Häberlen, C Kleser… - Neuropsychologia, 2008 - Elsevier
In individuals with autism or autism-spectrum-disorder (ASD), conflicting results have been
reported regarding the processing of biological motion tasks. As biological motion …

Motor deficits in children with autism spectrum disorder: A cross‐syndrome study

M McPhillips, J Finlay, S Bejerot, M Hanley - Autism Research, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Recent research suggests that children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) experience
some level of motor difficulty, and that this may be associated with social communication …

Communication deficits and the motor system: exploring patterns of associations in autism spectrum disorder (ASD)

M Mody, AM Shui, LA Nowinski, SB Golas… - Journal of autism and …, 2017 - Springer
Many children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) have notable difficulties in motor,
speech and language domains. The connection between motor skills (oral-motor, manual …

From movement kinematics to social cognition: the case of autism

J Cook - Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society …, 2016 - royalsocietypublishing.org
The way in which we move influences our ability to perceive, interpret and predict the
actions of others. Thus movements play an important role in social cognition. This review …