New research on motor learning and autism

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Physical awkwardness, low motor tone and other gross motor issues have always

been among the symptoms of autism spectrum disorders. Up until now, though,

there's been little research conducted to figure out why this is the case. Now,

an intriguing study conducted by the Kennedy Krieger Institute and s Hopkins

sheds some light on the subject1:

The findings suggest that children with autism appear to learn new actions

differently than do typically developing children. As compared to their

typically developing peers, children with autism relied much more on their own

internal sense of body position (proprioception), rather than visual information

coming from the external world to learn new patterns of movement. Furthermore,

researchers found that the greater the reliance on proprioception, the greater

the child's impairment in social skills, motor skills and imitation.

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( ) New research on motor learning and autism

I thought this article was pretty interesting...

Physical awkwardness, low motor tone and other gross motor issues have always been among the symptoms of autism spectrum disorders. Up until now, though, there's been little research conducted to figure out why this is the case. Now, an intriguing study conducted by the Kennedy Krieger Institute and s Hopkins sheds some light on the subject1:

The findings suggest that children with autism appear to learn new actions differently than do typically developing children. As compared to their typically developing peers, children with autism relied much more on their own internal sense of body position (proprioception), rather than visual information coming from the external world to learn new patterns of movement. Furthermore, researchers found that the greater the reliance on proprioception, the greater the child's impairment in social skills, motor skills and imitation.

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