Why add motor to the definition of ASD: A response to Bishop et al.'s critique of Bhat (2021).

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7 citing papers in PubMed.

1. Prevalence of Motor Milestone Delays in Autistic Children.JAMA pediatrics · 2025
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2. Motor difficulties in children with neurodevelopmental conditions: a report from a cross-national study in Belgian and Italian children.European journal of pediatrics · 2025
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3. Gross Motor Development in Children With Autism: Longitudinal Trajectories From the Growing Up in New Zealand Study.Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism Research · 2025
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4. Effects of Creative Movement, General Movement, or Seated Play Interventions on Motor Performance in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial.Research in autism spectrum disorders · 2025
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5. Enhanced motor noise in an autism subtype with poor motor skills.Molecular autism · 2024
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6. Multidimensional motor performance in children with autism mostly remains stable with age and predicts social communication delay, language delay, functional delay, and repetitive behavior severity after accounting for intellectual disability or cognitive delay: A SPARK dataset analysis.Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism Research · 2023
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7. Movement smoothness during dynamic postural control to a static target differs between autistic and neurotypical children.Gait & posture · 2023
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Corrections and comments

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  Supporting the need for the motor domain to be included in the definition of autism spectrum disorder: A response to Bishop et al.'s critique of Bhat (2021).2022
• Comment on
  Motor Impairment Increases in Children With Autism Spectrum Disorder as a Function of Social Communication, Cognitive and Functional Impairment, Repetitive Behavior Severity, and Comorbid Diagnoses: A SPARK Study Report.2021
• Comment on
  Insufficient evidence for inclusion of motor deficits in the ASD diagnostic criteria: A response to Bhat (2021).2022

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