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ArticleJournal of autism and developmental disorders2021

Brief Report: Speech and Language Therapy in Children with ASD in an Aquatic Environment: the ASLT (Aquatic Speech and Language Therapy) Program.

Stamatis Sourvinos, Aris Mavropoulos, Dimitrios S Kasselimis, Andriani Korasidi, Alexandra-Labrini Voukouni, Panagiotis Papadopoulos, Spyridon Vlaseros, Georgios Damianos, Constantin Potagas, Demosthenes Damianos

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Article in Journal of autism and developmental disorders, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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4citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

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4 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 12 citations in OpenAlex.

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10 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Stamatis SourvinosChildren Special Care Center, Hellenic Navy Hospital of Piraeus, 66 Akti Moutsopoulou, 18536, Piraeus, Greece. stamatisourvinos@gmail.com.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0538-1271
Aris MavropoulosFaculty of Physical Education and Sport Science, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, 41 Ethnikis Antistaseos str., 17237, Athens, Greece.
Dimitrios S KasselimisNeuropsychology and Language Disorders Unit, 1st Department of Neurology, School of Medicine, Eginition Hospital, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, 74 Vas. Sofias Av., 11528, Athens, Greece.
Andriani KorasidiChildren Special Care Center, Hellenic Navy Hospital of Piraeus, 66 Akti Moutsopoulou, 18536, Piraeus, Greece.
Alexandra-Labrini VoukouniChildren Special Care Center, Hellenic Navy Hospital of Piraeus, 66 Akti Moutsopoulou, 18536, Piraeus, Greece.
Panagiotis PapadopoulosChildren Special Care Center, Hellenic Navy Hospital of Piraeus, 66 Akti Moutsopoulou, 18536, Piraeus, Greece.
Spyridon VlaserosChildren Special Care Center, Hellenic Navy Hospital of Piraeus, 66 Akti Moutsopoulou, 18536, Piraeus, Greece.
Georgios DamianosChildren Special Care Center, Hellenic Navy Hospital of Piraeus, 66 Akti Moutsopoulou, 18536, Piraeus, Greece.
Constantin PotagasNeuropsychology and Language Disorders Unit, 1st Department of Neurology, School of Medicine, Eginition Hospital, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, 74 Vas. Sofias Av., 11528, Athens, Greece.
Demosthenes DamianosChildren Special Care Center, Hellenic Navy Hospital of Piraeus, 66 Akti Moutsopoulou, 18536, Piraeus, Greece.
Hellenic Naval Academy · GRNational and Kapodistrian University of Athens · GR

Funding

State Scholarships Foundation Reinforcement of Postdoctoral Researchers
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Although water-based approaches have been shown to be beneficial for children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), no study thus far has directly investigated the effects of such intervention programs on language skills. The present study aims to evaluate the efficacy of the Aquatic Speech and Language Therapy (ASLT) program, which is a new, exclusively aquatic intervention program designed especially for children with ASD. The effects of ASLT were compared to the outcome of a similar classroom-based intervention, in two groups of children with ASD matched for age, gender, and expressive/receptive vocabulary. Our findings show that ASLT results in significantly greater improvement of vocabulary measures, thus providing direct evidence of water-based intervention's beneficial effects on language skills in ASD.

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Child LanguageSwimming PoolsAutism Spectrum DisorderChildChild, PreschoolFemaleHumansLanguage TherapyMaleSpeechSpeech TherapySwimmingVocabularyAutism spectrum disorderExpressive vocabularyReceptive vocabularySpeech and language therapyWater-based intervention

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PMID32748193
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