Enhancement of psychomotor skills in children with autism spectrum disorder by employing a mechatronic training kit

Prevalence of Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) in children has been increasing over the years. These children, when compared to typically growing children, face challenges in leading a day-to-day life. Other than the social interactions, communication and cognitive skills, psychomotor skill deficits a...

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Main Authors: Moorthy Ramya S., Iyer Kritika, Krishnan R. Hari, Pugazhenthi S.
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: De Gruyter 2019-01-01
Series:Paladyn: Journal of Behavioral Robotics
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1515/pjbr-2019-0001
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spelling doaj-12f5cce84ef448ca8f07dbf3c41be6d52021-10-02T17:46:43ZengDe GruyterPaladyn: Journal of Behavioral Robotics2081-48362019-01-0110111310.1515/pjbr-2019-0001pjbr-2019-0001Enhancement of psychomotor skills in children with autism spectrum disorder by employing a mechatronic training kitMoorthy Ramya S.0Iyer Kritika1Krishnan R. Hari2Pugazhenthi S.3School of Mechanical Engineering, SASTRA Deemed to be University, Thanjavur-613 401,Tamil Nadu, IndiaSchool of Mechanical Engineering, SASTRA Deemed to be University, Thanjavur-613 401,Tamil Nadu, IndiaSchool of Mechanical Engineering, SASTRA Deemed to be University, Thanjavur-613 401,Tamil Nadu, IndiaSchool of Mechanical Engineering, SASTRA Deemed to be University, Thanjavur-613 401,Tamil Nadu, IndiaPrevalence of Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) in children has been increasing over the years. These children, when compared to typically growing children, face challenges in leading a day-to-day life. Other than the social interactions, communication and cognitive skills, psychomotor skill deficits are also found in them. This paper focuses on enhancement of psychomotor skills in children with ASD by employing a mechatronic training kit. Training using this kit aims at developing skills like ‘palmar grasp’, ‘wrist rotation’ and ‘eye-hand coordination’. Trials were conducted with six children with autism aged between four and nine years. Significant improvements were seen in these children both in skills and in behaviour after the training. Thus, teaching psychomotor skills to children with autism using the newly developed mechatronic door training kit is found to be working and the results are encouraging.https://doi.org/10.1515/pjbr-2019-0001psychomotor skillspalmar graspwrist rotationeye-hand coordinationmechatronic door training kit
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Enhancement of psychomotor skills in children with autism spectrum disorder by employing a mechatronic training kit
Paladyn: Journal of Behavioral Robotics
psychomotor skills
palmar grasp
wrist rotation
eye-hand coordination
mechatronic door training kit
author_facet Moorthy Ramya S.
Iyer Kritika
Krishnan R. Hari
Pugazhenthi S.
author_sort Moorthy Ramya S.
title Enhancement of psychomotor skills in children with autism spectrum disorder by employing a mechatronic training kit
title_short Enhancement of psychomotor skills in children with autism spectrum disorder by employing a mechatronic training kit
title_full Enhancement of psychomotor skills in children with autism spectrum disorder by employing a mechatronic training kit
title_fullStr Enhancement of psychomotor skills in children with autism spectrum disorder by employing a mechatronic training kit
title_full_unstemmed Enhancement of psychomotor skills in children with autism spectrum disorder by employing a mechatronic training kit
title_sort enhancement of psychomotor skills in children with autism spectrum disorder by employing a mechatronic training kit
publisher De Gruyter
series Paladyn: Journal of Behavioral Robotics
issn 2081-4836
publishDate 2019-01-01
description Prevalence of Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) in children has been increasing over the years. These children, when compared to typically growing children, face challenges in leading a day-to-day life. Other than the social interactions, communication and cognitive skills, psychomotor skill deficits are also found in them. This paper focuses on enhancement of psychomotor skills in children with ASD by employing a mechatronic training kit. Training using this kit aims at developing skills like ‘palmar grasp’, ‘wrist rotation’ and ‘eye-hand coordination’. Trials were conducted with six children with autism aged between four and nine years. Significant improvements were seen in these children both in skills and in behaviour after the training. Thus, teaching psychomotor skills to children with autism using the newly developed mechatronic door training kit is found to be working and the results are encouraging.
topic psychomotor skills
palmar grasp
wrist rotation
eye-hand coordination
mechatronic door training kit
url https://doi.org/10.1515/pjbr-2019-0001
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