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| Title |
Choosing an Appropriate Physical Exercise to Reduce Stereotypic Behavior in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders: A Non-randomized Crossover Study
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| Published in |
Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, December 2017
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| DOI | 10.1007/s10803-017-3419-3 |
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| Authors |
C. Y. Andy Tse, C. L. Pang, Paul H. Lee |
| Abstract |
Considerable evidence has shown that physical exercise could be an effective treatment in reducing stereotypical autism spectrum disorder (ASD) behaviors in children. The present study seeks to examine the underlying mechanism by considering the theoretical operant nature of stereotypy. Children with ASD (n = 30) who exhibited hand-flapping and body-rocking stereotypies were asked to participate in both control (story-time) and experimental (ball-tapping-exercise intervention) conditions. The experimental condition comprised 15 min of ball tapping during which the children were asked to tap a plastic ball as many times as they could. Results indicated that hand-flapping stereotypy was significantly reduced but body-rocking stereotypy following the ball-tapping-exercise intervention was not. These results not only confirm the positive impact of exercise intervention on stereotypic behavior as shown in many previous studies, but further suggest that physical exercise should be matched with the biomechanics of stereotypy to produce a desirable behavioral benefit. |
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 1 | 50% |
| Unknown | 1 | 50% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 2 | 100% |
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The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 192 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Unknown | 192 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Master | 29 | 15% |
| Student > Bachelor | 27 | 14% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 17 | 9% |
| Researcher | 12 | 6% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 11 | 6% |
| Other | 25 | 13% |
| Unknown | 71 | 37% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Nursing and Health Professions | 30 | 16% |
| Sports and Recreations | 22 | 11% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 17 | 9% |
| Psychology | 17 | 9% |
| Social Sciences | 13 | 7% |
| Other | 15 | 8% |
| Unknown | 78 | 41% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 1. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 05 December 2017.
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#16,188,009
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#4,003
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#272,866
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#86
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