Duffy, L.; Baluch, B.; Welland, S.; Raman, E.

Effects of physical activity on debilitating behaviours in 13- to 20-year-old males with severe autism spectrum disorder

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Duffy, L., Baluch, B., Welland, S. and Raman, E. 2017. Effects of physical activity on debilitating behaviours in 13- to 20-year-old males with severe autism spectrum disorder. Journal of Exercise Rehabilitation. 13 (3), pp. 340-347. https://doi.org/10.12965/jer.1734960.480

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Title	Effects of physical activity on debilitating behaviours in 13- to 20-year-old males with severe autism spectrum disorder
Authors	Duffy, L., Baluch, B., Welland, S. and Raman, E.
Abstract	The presented study investigated the extent to which engaging in a therapeutic sporting programme in males with severe Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) improves the debilitating behaviours commonly associated with ASD. Furthermore, the views of parents of the autistic participants were assessed concerning the effectiveness of the programme. Participants were eight 13-20 year old males born in the UK from a school and sports college for pupils with severe learning difficulties. The selection was using volunteer sampling from the “Monday Club” initiative, run by Saracens Sports Foundation in partnership with a local School and specialist Sports College. The Gilliam Autism Rating Scale (GARS-3) was administered to identify and measure the severity of ASD behaviours at four time periods namely: at programme entry as the baseline (T1), a second time after 8 weeks (T2), a third time after sixteen weeks (T3) and a fourth time post programme (T4). The results showed that for the more severe cases of ASD (Autism Index >101) there was no positive change in subscale performance from Time1 to Time2. For milder cases (Autism Index 71-100) there were subtle non-significant improvements on the subscale scores from Time1 to Time2. Of the 6 subscales at Time2, Emotional Responses (ER), Cognitive Style (CS) and Maladaptive Speech (MS) approached significance at the p = 0.05 level. At Time3 and Time4, there was also no statistically significant improvement in ASD behaviours compared to the baseline for either condition. Finally parents’ were “very satisfied” with their child’s participation in the physical activity programme.
Publisher	Korean Society of Exercise Rehabilitation
Journal	Journal of Exercise Rehabilitation
ISSN	2288-176X
Online	27 Jun 2017
Print	27 Jun 2017
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Deposited	03 Jul 2017
Submitted	13 Apr 2017
Accepted	10 Jun 2017
Output status	Published
Publisher's version	Duffy, Baluch, Welland & Raman et al 2017.pdf License CC BY-NC 4.0
Copyright Statement	Copyright © 2017 Korean Society of Exercise Rehabilitation This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)	https://doi.org/10.12965/jer.1734960.480
Language	English

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