A Review on the Efficacy of Physical Therapy Intervention on Motor Skills of Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder
- Keywords
- physical therapy, motor skills, autism spectrum disorder
- Abstract
Studies involving Physical Therapy (PT) intervention towards children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) were reviewed. Systematic search procedures identified 3 studies meeting predetermined inclusion criteria. These studies were evaluated in terms of: (a) participant characteristics, (b) types of intervention, (c) procedures used (d) outcomes, and (e) research methodology. Across the corpus of studies, PT intervention was implemented on 67 participants with ASD aged five to twelve years. The PT intervention includes gait training with Rhythmic Auditory Stimulation (RAS), PT throwing intervention in conjunction with Applied Behavioural Analysis (ABA) approach, as well as motor skill training alongside with rhythm, robot and table-top activities. Results suggested that PT intervention for children with ASD may benefit in their motor skills in terms of bilateral coordination, balance, running speed, agility, strength, throwing accuracy, and reduction in imitation/ praxis error. Nonetheless, in view of limited numbers of studies reviewed, need of further research with larger number of articles are required.
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- © 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
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- This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).
Cite this article
TY - CONF AU - Cindy Lee Chia Yin AU - Teng Kie Yin PY - 2019/12 DA - 2019/12 TI - A Review on the Efficacy of Physical Therapy Intervention on Motor Skills of Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder BT - Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Special Education (ICSE 2019) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 39 EP - 43 SN - 2352-5398 UR - https://www.atlantis-press.com/article/125928886 ID - Yin2019/12 ER -