Oromotor functioning plays a foundational role in spoken communication and feeding, two
areas of significant difficulty for many autistic individuals. However, despite years of research …

Absence of communicative speech in autism has been presumed to reflect a fundamental
deficit in the use of language, but at least in a subpopulation may instead stem from motor …

Introduction This study investigated the associations between fine motor skills and
expressive verbal abilities in a group of 97 autistic participants (age 8-17, mean= 12.41) and …

Purpose: Motor deficits are widely documented among autistic individuals, and speech
characteristics consistent with a motor speech disorder have been reported in prior …

Many children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) have notable difficulties in motor,
speech and language domains. The connection between motor skills (oral-motor, manual …

Movement atypicalities in speed, coordination, posture, and gait have been observed across
the autism spectrum (AS) and atypicalities in coordination are more commonly observed in …

Objective: To investigate expressiveness of motor impairment in autism spectrum disorder
(ASD) and its correlation with developmental and clinical features of ASD. Method: Thirty …

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 abnormalities are highly prevalent in children with autism spectrum disorder and are
strongly predictive of adaptive functioning. Despite the documented sex bias in the …

Eating a delicious meal, ranting to a friend, playing an instrument, tackling that boulder
scramble in the middle of your favorite hike—some of life's greatest pleasures depend on a …