Developmental differences in the prospective organisation of goal-directed movement between children with autism and typically developing children: A smart tablet serious game study.

ABSTRACT: Movement is prospective. It structures self-generated engagement with objects and social partners and is fundamental to children's learning and development. In autistic children, previous reports of differences in movement kinematics compared to neurotypical peers suggest that its prospective organisation might be disrupted. Here, we employed a smart tablet serious game paradigm to assess differences in the feedforward and feedback mechanisms of prospective action organisation, between autistic and neurotypical preschool children. We analysed 3926 goal-directed finger movements made during smart-tablet ecological gameplay, from 28 children with Childhood Autism (ICD-10; ASD) and 43 neurotypical children (TD), aged 3-6 years old. Using linear and generalised linear mixed-effect models, we f

SUBMITTER: Chua YW 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9287065 | biostudies-literature | 2022 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature