TY - JOUR
T1 - Accelerating Motor Skill Acquisition for Bicycle Riding in Children with ASD
T2 - A Pilot Study
AU - Hawks, Zoë
AU - Constantino, John N.
AU - Weichselbaum, Claire
AU - Marrus, Natasha
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2019, Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature.
PY - 2020/1/1
Y1 - 2020/1/1
N2 - Motor impairment is common in autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and, as such, a potential target for interventions to improve adaptive functioning. This study investigated motor skill acquisition in children with ASD (n = 15, 12 males; ages 7–16 years) during iCan Bike Camp, a 1-week, community-based intervention (5 × 75-min sessions) to teach independent bicycle riding. After completing the camp’s task-oriented, individualized training program, all participants demonstrated motor skill acquisition on the bicycle, and nine participants rode independently at least 70 feet. Exploratory analyses showed that motor coordination and social communication correlated with rates of skill acquisition. These findings indicate the feasibility and efficacy of brief, community-based motor interventions to teach bicycle riding—an important developmental skill supporting adaptive functioning—to children with ASD.
AB - Motor impairment is common in autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and, as such, a potential target for interventions to improve adaptive functioning. This study investigated motor skill acquisition in children with ASD (n = 15, 12 males; ages 7–16 years) during iCan Bike Camp, a 1-week, community-based intervention (5 × 75-min sessions) to teach independent bicycle riding. After completing the camp’s task-oriented, individualized training program, all participants demonstrated motor skill acquisition on the bicycle, and nine participants rode independently at least 70 feet. Exploratory analyses showed that motor coordination and social communication correlated with rates of skill acquisition. These findings indicate the feasibility and efficacy of brief, community-based motor interventions to teach bicycle riding—an important developmental skill supporting adaptive functioning—to children with ASD.
KW - Adaptive function
KW - Autism spectrum disorder (ASD)
KW - Bicycle riding
KW - Motor coordination
KW - Motor skill acquisition
KW - Social communication
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85073829690&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/s10803-019-04224-5
DO - 10.1007/s10803-019-04224-5
M3 - Article
C2 - 31535342
AN - SCOPUS:85073829690
SN - 0162-3257
VL - 50
SP - 342
EP - 348
JO - Journal of autism and developmental disorders
JF - Journal of autism and developmental disorders
IS - 1
ER -