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SUBMITTER: McAuliffe D
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5360543 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
McAuliffe Danielle D Pillai Ajay S AS Tiedemann Alyssa A Mostofsky Stewart H SH Ewen Joshua B JB
Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism Research 20160921 4
Children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) have long been known to have deficits in the performance of praxis gestures; these motor deficits also correlate with social and communicative deficits. To date, the precise nature of the errors involved in praxis has not been clearly mapped out. Based on observations of individuals with ASD performing gestures, we hypothesized that the simultaneous execution of multiple movement elements is especially impaired in affected children. We examined 25 sc ...[more]