ArticleEuropean child & adolescent psychiatry2014
Deficits in motor abilities and developmental fractionation of imitation performance in high-functioning autism spectrum disorders.
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- Gross motor impairment and its relation to social skills in autism spectrum disorder: A systematic review and two meta-analyses.Psychological bulletinPooled it
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- Immediate reinforcement increased duration of time riding the stationary bicycle in children with autism spectrum disorder: a pilot study.International journal of developmental disabilities · 2022Article
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- Applying Machine Learning to Kinematic and Eye Movement Features of a Movement Imitation Task to Predict Autism Diagnosis.Scientific reports · 2020Article
- The Source of Palm Orientation Errors in the Signing of Children with ASD: Imitative, Motoric, or Both?Brain sciences · 2020Article
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- 'People should be allowed to do what they like': Autistic adults' views and experiences of stimming.Autism : the international journal of research and practice · 2019Article
- Neural Processing and Production of Gesture in Children and Adolescents With Autism Spectrum Disorder.Frontiers in psychology · 2019Article
- [Neuronal plasticity and neuromodulation in pediatric neurology].Der Nervenarzt · 2018Review
- The impact of auditory rhythmic cueing on gross motor skills in children with autism.Journal of physical therapy science · 2018Article
- Comparing motor performance, praxis, coordination, and interpersonal synchrony between children with and without Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD).Research in developmental disabilities · 2018Article
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- Identification of neuromotor deficits common to autism spectrum disorder and attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder, and imitation deficits specific to autism spectrum disorder.European child & adolescent psychiatry · 2015Article
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Abstract
The co-occurrence of motor and imitation disabilities often characterises the spectrum of deficits seen in patients with autism spectrum disorders (ASD). Whether these seemingly separate deficits are inter-related and whether, in particular, motor deficits contribute to the expression of imitation deficits is the topic of the present study and was investigated by comparing these deficits' cross-sectional developmental trajectories. To that end, different components of motor performance assessed in the Zurich Neuromotor Assessment and imitation abilities for facial movements and non-meaningful gestures were tested in 70 subjects (aged 6-29 years), including 36 patients with high-functioning ASD and 34 age-matched typically developed (TD) participants. The results show robust deficits in probands with ASD in timed motor performance and in the quality of movement, which are all independent of age, with one exception. Only diadochokinesis improves moderately with increasing age in ASD probands. Imitation of facial movements and of non-meaningful hand, finger, hand finger gestures not related to social context or tool use is also impaired in ASD subjects, but in contrast to motor performance this deficit overall improves with age. A general imitation factor, extracted from the highly inter-correlated imitation tests, is differentially correlated with components of neuromotor performance in ASD and TD participants. By developmentally fractionating developmentally stable motor deficits from developmentally dynamic imitation deficits, we infer that imitation deficits are primarily cognitive in nature.
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