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Motor Capacities in Boys with High Functioning Autism: Which Evaluations to Choose?

The difficulties with motor skills in children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) has become a major focus of interest. Our objectives were to provide an overall profile of motor capacities in children with ASD compared to neurotypically developed children through specific tests, and to identify w...

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Autores principales: BRICOUT, Véronique-Aurélie, PACE, Marion, DUMORTIER, Léa, MIGANEH, Sahal, MAHISTRE, Yohan, GUINOT, Michel
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6832130/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31546634
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/jcm8101521
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author BRICOUT, Véronique-Aurélie
PACE, Marion
DUMORTIER, Léa
MIGANEH, Sahal
MAHISTRE, Yohan
GUINOT, Michel
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description The difficulties with motor skills in children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) has become a major focus of interest. Our objectives were to provide an overall profile of motor capacities in children with ASD compared to neurotypically developed children through specific tests, and to identify which motor tests best discriminate children with or without ASD. Twenty-two male children with ASD (ASD—10.7 ± 1.3 years) and twenty controls (CONT—10.0 ± 1.6 years) completed an evaluation with 42 motor tests from European Physical Fitness Test Battery (EUROFIT), the Physical and Neurological Exam for Subtle Signs (PANESS) and the Movement Assessment Battery for Children ( M-ABC). However, it was challenging to design a single global classifier to integrate all these features for effective classification due to the issue of small sample size. To this end, we proposed a hierarchical ensemble classification method to combine multilevel classifiers by gradually integrating a large number of features from different motor assessments. In the ASD group, flexibility, explosive power and strength scores (p < 0.01) were significantly lower compared to the control group. Our results also showed significant difficulties in children with ASD for dexterity and ball skills (p < 0.001). The principal component analysis and agglomerative hierarchical cluster analysis allowed for the classification of children based on motor tests, correctly distinguishing clusters between children with and without motor impairments.
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spelling pubmed-68321302019-11-20 Motor Capacities in Boys with High Functioning Autism: Which Evaluations to Choose? BRICOUT, Véronique-Aurélie PACE, Marion DUMORTIER, Léa MIGANEH, Sahal MAHISTRE, Yohan GUINOT, Michel J Clin Med Article The difficulties with motor skills in children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) has become a major focus of interest. Our objectives were to provide an overall profile of motor capacities in children with ASD compared to neurotypically developed children through specific tests, and to identify which motor tests best discriminate children with or without ASD. Twenty-two male children with ASD (ASD—10.7 ± 1.3 years) and twenty controls (CONT—10.0 ± 1.6 years) completed an evaluation with 42 motor tests from European Physical Fitness Test Battery (EUROFIT), the Physical and Neurological Exam for Subtle Signs (PANESS) and the Movement Assessment Battery for Children ( M-ABC). However, it was challenging to design a single global classifier to integrate all these features for effective classification due to the issue of small sample size. To this end, we proposed a hierarchical ensemble classification method to combine multilevel classifiers by gradually integrating a large number of features from different motor assessments. In the ASD group, flexibility, explosive power and strength scores (p < 0.01) were significantly lower compared to the control group. Our results also showed significant difficulties in children with ASD for dexterity and ball skills (p < 0.001). The principal component analysis and agglomerative hierarchical cluster analysis allowed for the classification of children based on motor tests, correctly distinguishing clusters between children with and without motor impairments. MDPI 2019-09-21 /pmc/articles/PMC6832130/ /pubmed/31546634 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/jcm8101521 Text en © 2019 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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MAHISTRE, Yohan
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Motor Capacities in Boys with High Functioning Autism: Which Evaluations to Choose?
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title_full_unstemmed Motor Capacities in Boys with High Functioning Autism: Which Evaluations to Choose?
title_short Motor Capacities in Boys with High Functioning Autism: Which Evaluations to Choose?
title_sort motor capacities in boys with high functioning autism: which evaluations to choose?
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6832130/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31546634
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/jcm8101521
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