ArticleJournal of autism and developmental disorders2018
Choosing an Appropriate Physical Exercise to Reduce Stereotypic Behavior in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders: A Non-randomized Crossover Study.
Article in Journal of autism and developmental disorders, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT04593576 (Effects of Outdoor Sports Activities on Pragmatic Language Skills for Children With Autism in Pakistan.), which is not on this map. Cited by 10 papers.
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Effects of Outdoor Sports Activities on Pragmatic Language Skills for Children With Autism in Pakistan.
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10 citing papers in PubMed, 41 citations in OpenAlex.
- Therapeutic Riding or Mindfulness: Comparative Effectiveness of Two Recreational Therapy Interventions for Adolescents with Autism.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2022Trial
- Understanding the Influence of Social and Motor Context on the Co-occurring Frequency of Restricted and Repetitive Behaviors in Autism.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2020Trial
- Targeting the Cerebellar Circuit: How Exercise Intervention Reshapes White Matter Networks to Alleviate Autism Symptoms.Biology · 2026Article
- Conceptual Intersections of Autistic Characteristics, Internalizing and Externalizing Behaviors, and Personality in Autistic Youth: A Network Analysis.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2025Article
- Exercise Interventions for Autistic People: An Integrative Review of Evidence from Clinical Trials.Current psychiatry reports · 2025Review
- Neural correlates of the deployment of spatial attention, and their modulation by repetitive movements.PloS one · 2025Article
- Diagnostic Utility of the Gilliam Autism Rating Scales-3rd Edition Parent Report in Clinically Referred Children.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2023Article
- Relationships Between Emotion Regulation, Social Communication and Repetitive Behaviors in Autism Spectrum Disorder.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2022Article
- Differential expression of genes in the subgranular zone and granular cell layer of the hippocampus after running.Journal of exercise nutrition & biochemistry · 2018Article
- Supervised machine learning: A new method to predict the outcomes following exercise intervention in children with autism spectrum disorder.International journal of clinical and health psychology : IJCHPArticle
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Abstract
Considerable evidence has shown that physical exercise could be an effective treatment in reducing stereotypical autism spectrum disorder (ASD) behaviors in children. The present study seeks to examine the underlying mechanism by considering the theoretical operant nature of stereotypy. Children with ASD (n = 30) who exhibited hand-flapping and body-rocking stereotypies were asked to participate in both control (story-time) and experimental (ball-tapping-exercise intervention) conditions. The experimental condition comprised 15 min of ball tapping during which the children were asked to tap a plastic ball as many times as they could. Results indicated that hand-flapping stereotypy was significantly reduced but body-rocking stereotypy following the ball-tapping-exercise intervention was not. These results not only confirm the positive impact of exercise intervention on stereotypic behavior as shown in many previous studies, but further suggest that physical exercise should be matched with the biomechanics of stereotypy to produce a desirable behavioral benefit.
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