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ArticleFrontiers in integrative neuroscience2013

Motor development and motor resonance difficulties in autism: relevance to early intervention for language and communication skills.

Joseph P McCleery, Natasha A Elliott, Dimitrios S Sampanis, Chrysi A Stefanidou

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Article in Frontiers in integrative neuroscience, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT02656433 (Transcranial Noninvasive Brain Stimulation With Random Noise for Children With Congenital or Acquired Brain Injury), which is not on this map. Cited by 21 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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21citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
2.6field-weighted citation impact, top 11% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

NCT02656433 nacompletednot on this mapstarted 2017, after this paper: background citation

Transcranial Noninvasive Brain Stimulation With Random Noise for Children With Congenital or Acquired Brain Injury

TypeinterventionalSponsorSpanish Foundation for Neurometrics DevelopmentRan2017 to 2023Enrolled92ConditionsBrain Injury, Motor Skills DisordersArmsTranscranial Random Noise Stimulation, Physiotherapy
3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

21 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 70 citations in OpenAlex.

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  10. An Examination of Articulatory Precision in Autistic Children and Adults.Journal of speech, language, and hearing research : JSLHR · 2022
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  20. Cerebellar gray matter differentiates children with early language delay in autism.Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism Research · 2016
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Joseph P McCleerySchool of Psychology, University of Birmingham West Midlands, Birmingham, UK.
Natasha A Elliott
Dimitrios S Sampanis
Chrysi A Stefanidou
University of Birmingham · GB

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Research suggests that a sub-set of children with autism experience notable difficulties and delays in motor skills development, and that a large percentage of children with autism experience deficits in motor resonance. These motor-related deficiencies, which evidence suggests are present from a very early age, are likely to negatively affect social-communicative and language development in this population. Here, we review evidence for delayed, impaired, and atypical motor development in infants and children with autism. We then carefully review and examine the current language and communication-based intervention research that is relevant to motor and motor resonance (i.e., neural "mirroring" mechanisms activated when we observe the actions of others) deficits in children with autism. Finally, we describe research needs and future directions and developments for early interventions aimed at addressing the speech/language and social-communication development difficulties in autism from a motor-related perspective.

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autismcommunicationearly interventionlanguagemotor

Identifiers

PMID23630476
PMCPMC3634796
OpenAlexW1973525489

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