Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Special Education (ICSE 2019)

A Review on the Efficacy of Physical Therapy Intervention on Motor Skills of Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder

Authors
Cindy Lee Chia Yin, Teng Kie Yin
Corresponding Author
Cindy Lee Chia Yin
Available Online December 2019.
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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Volume Title
Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Special Education (ICSE 2019)
Series
Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research
Publication Date
December 2019
ISBN
978-94-6252-876-5
ISSN
2352-5398
Copyright
© 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
Open Access
This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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