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 …

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 …

IQ and sensory symptom severity best predict motor ability in children with and without autism spectrum disorder

OJ Surgent, M Walczak, O Zarzycki, K Ausderau… - Journal of Autism and …, 2021 - Springer
Motor challenges are commonly reported in autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Yet, there is
substantial heterogeneity in motor ability within ASD, and it is unknown what behavioral …

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 …

Motor development and delay: advances in assessment of motor skills in autism spectrum disorders

RB Wilson, PG Enticott, NJ Rinehart - Current opinion in …, 2018 - journals.lww.com
Information from advanced quantitative and neurodiagnostic methods of motor function
contribute to a better understanding of the specific and subtle motor impairments in ASD …

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 …

Motor competency and social communication skills in preschool children with autism spectrum disorder

F Craig, A Lorenzo, E Lucarelli, L Russo… - Autism …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
This study aimed to investigate the association between motor competency and social
communication in children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) compared with children …

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 …

Exploring the interaction of motor and social skills with autism severity using the SFARI dataset

AM Colombo-Dougovito… - Perceptual and Motor …, 2017 - journals.sagepub.com
Social communicative deficits and stereotyped or repetitive interests or behaviors are the
defining features of autism spectrum disorder (ASD). A growing body of research suggests …