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Bahrami, Fatimah; Movahedi, Ahmadreza; Marandi, Sayed Mohammad; Abedi, Ahmad – Research in Developmental Disabilities: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2012
The effects of 14 weeks of Kata techniques training on stereotypic behaviors of children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) were investigated. The study included 30 eligible (diagnosed ASD, school age) children with ages ranging from 5 to 16 years whom they assigned to an exercise (n = 15) or a no-exercise control group (n = 15). Participants of…
Descriptors: Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Children, Adolescents
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Chang, Chih-Hui; Wade, Michael G.; Stoffregen, Thomas A.; Hsu, Chin-Yu; Pan, Chien-Yu – Research in Developmental Disabilities: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2010
We investigated the influences of two different suprapostural visual tasks, visual searching and visual inspection, on the postural sway of children with and without autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Sixteen ASD children (age=8.75 [plus or minus] 1.34 years; height=130.34 [plus or minus] 11.03 cm) were recruited from a local support group.…
Descriptors: Autism, Human Posture, Motion, Children
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Gal, Eynat; Dyck, Murray J.; Passmore, Anne – Research in Developmental Disabilities: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2009
We assessed whether the stereotyped movements (SM) that are a defining characteristic of autism are discriminable from those observed in other disorders, and whether stereotyped self-injurious movements, which are excluded as exemplars of SM in DSM-IV, differ from other SM in severity or in kind. We used the Stereotyped and Self-Injurious Movement…
Descriptors: Visual Impairments, Self Destructive Behavior, Mental Retardation, Autism