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The Relationship of Motor Skills and Social Communicative Skills in School-Aged Children With Autism Spectrum Disorder

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  • Motor skill deficits are present and persist in school-aged children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD; Staples & Reid, 2010). Yet the focus of intervention is on core impairments, which are part of the diagnostic criteria for ASD, deficits in social communication skills. The purpose of this study is to determine whether the functional motor skills, of 6- to 15-year-old children with high-functioning ASD, predict success in standardized social communicative skills. It is hypothesized that children with better motor skills will have better social communicative skills. A total of 35 children with ASD between the ages of 6–15 years participated in this study. The univariate GLM (general linear model) tested the relationship of motor skills on social communicative skills holding constant age, IQ, ethnicity, gender, and clinical ASD diagnosis. Object-control motor skills significantly predicted calibrated ASD severity (p < .05). Children with weaker motor skills have greater social communicative skill deficits. How this relationship exists behaviorally, needs to be explored further.
  • Keywords: autism spectrum disorder, motor behavior, calibrated autism severity, social skills
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  • MacDonald, M., Lord, C., & Ulrich, D. A. (2013, July). The Relationship of Motor Skills and Social Communicative Skills in School-Aged Children With Autism Spectrum Disorder. Adapted Physical Activity Quarterly, 30(3), 271-282.
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  • 30
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  • Partial funding for this project was provided by grants from the Rackham Graduate School at the University of Michigan, the Blue Cross Blue Shields Foundation of Michigan Grant number 1687.SAP (awarded to Dr. MacDonald), and a grant from the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA UA3MC11055).
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