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Comparing motor performance, praxis, coordination, and interpersonal synchrony between children with and without Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD)

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Kaur, Maninderjit, M. Srinivasan, Sudha, N. Bhat, Anjana·2018·Research in Developmental Disabilities
DOI 10.1016/j.ridd.2017.10.025PMC PMC5743591
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Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) have basic motor impairments in balance, gait, and coordination as well as autism-specific impairments in praxis/motor planning and interpersonal synchrony. Majority of the current literature focuses on isolated motor behaviors or domains. Additionally, the relationship between cognition, symptom severity, and motor performance in ASD is unclear. We used a comprehensive set of measures to compare gross and fine motor, praxis/imitation, motor coordination, and interpersonal synchrony skills across three groups of children between 5 and 12 years of age: children with ASD with high IQ (HASD), children with ASD with low IQ (LASD), and typically developing (TD) children. We used the Bruininks-Oseretsky Test of Motor Proficiency and the Bilateral Motor Coordination subtest of the Sensory Integration and Praxis Tests to assess motor performance and praxis skills respectively. Children were also examined while performing simple and complex rhythmic upper and lower limb actions on their own (solo context) and with a social partner (social context). Both ASD groups had lower gross and fine motor scores, greater praxis errors in total and within various error types, lower movement rates, greater movement variability, and weaker interpersonal synchrony compared to the TD group. In addition, the LASD group had lower gross motor scores and greater mirroring errors compared to the HASD group. Overall, a variety of motor impairments are present across the entire spectrum of children with ASD, regardless of their IQ scores. Both, fine and gross motor performance significantly correlated with IQ but not with autism severity; however, praxis errors (mainly, total, overflow, and rhythmicity) strongly correlated with autism severity and not IQ. Our study findings highlight the need for clinicians and therapists to include motor evaluations and interventions in the standard-of-care of children with ASD and for the broader autism community to recognize dyspraxia as an integral part of the definition of ASD.

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Authors
Kaur, M., M. Srinivasan, S., & N. Bhat, A.
Affiliations
University of Delaware (US)
ORCID
Kaur, Maninderjit
Venue
Research in Developmental Disabilities
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Published
2018-01
Volume
72
Pages
79-95
ISSN
0891-4222 (ISSN-L)
DOI
10.1016/j.ridd.2017.10.025
PMC
PMC5743591
OpenAlex
W2768032362
Cited by
304
References
158
Citations by year
2026: 34 · 2025: 44 · 2024: 47 · 2023: 39 · 2022: 51 · 2021: 46 · 2020: 17 · 2019: 19 · 2018: 6
FWCI
6.60
Type
journal article
Language
en
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  • Research in Developmental Disabilities (acceptedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (acceptedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
Funders
  • Autism Speaks
  • National Institutes of Health
  • National Institute of Mental Health (R33MH089441, R21MH089441)
  • National Institute of General Medical Sciences (U54GM104941)
Topics
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Autism Spectrum Disorder Research
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Developmental and Educational Psychology › Children's Physical and Motor Development
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Action Observation and Synchronization
Keywords
autism spectrum disorder, motor performance, praxis, motor coordination, interpersonal synchrony, gross motor skills, fine motor skills, motor planning, imitation, movement variability, movement frequency, autism severity, IQ, children, developmental coordination disorder, social interaction
MeSH terms
Autism Spectrum Disorder, Apraxias, Ataxia, Child, Female, Humans, Male, Motor Skills, Neuropsychological Tests, Psychomotor Performance, Severity of Illness Index, Statistics as Topic, Task Performance and Analysis, Social Skills

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