Longitudinal development of language and fine motor skills is correlated, but not coupled, in a childhood atypical cohort.

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More and more members of the autistic community and the research field are moving away from the idea that there will be a single biological or cognitive explanation for autistic characteristics. However, little is known about the complex dynamic processes that could explain why early difficulties in the language and motor domain often go hand-in-hand. We here study how language and motor skills develop simultaneously in the British Autism Study of Infant Siblings cohort of infants, and compare the way they are linked between children with and without developmental delays. Our results suggest that improvements in one domain go hand-in-hand with improvements in the other in both groups and show no compelling evidence for group differences in how motor skills relate to la

SUBMITTER: Deserno MK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9806469 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature