Parent Descriptions of the Active Play Behaviors of Their Twins and Triplets With Autism.

IF 1.7 3区医学 Q2 REHABILITATION

Adapted Physical Activity Quarterly Pub Date : 2023-04-21 Print Date: 2023-10-01 DOI:10.1123/apaq.2022-0171

Marie Abu Itham, Serene Kerpan, Robert Balogh, Meghann Lloyd

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Abstract

Children with autism engage in active play in different ways than children who are neurotypical, but their active play behaviors are not well understood. Research with twins and triplets with autism offers a unique opportunity to gain a clear picture of the play behaviors of children with autism because twins and triplets share many similarities (age, access to toys, etc.). Through semistructured interviews, this descriptive phenomenological study aimed to describe the active play behaviors of 19 twins and triplets with autism from the perspective of their parents (N = 9). The interviews revealed two main themes: (a) parents' descriptions of active play and (b) parents' descriptions of social play. The results reveal the diverse active and social play behaviors of twins and triplets with autism; parents described their children's play behavior when engaging in sensory, indoor, outdoor, and organized play. These results suggest that children with autism may be meeting the definition of active play in nontraditional ways.

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父母对自闭症双胞胎和三胞胎积极游戏行为的描述。

自闭症儿童以与神经正常儿童不同的方式参与主动游戏，但他们的主动游戏行为并没有得到很好的理解。对患有自闭症的双胞胎和三胞胎的研究提供了一个独特的机会，可以清楚地了解自闭症儿童的游戏行为，因为双胞胎和三胞胎有很多相似之处（年龄、玩具的使用等），这项描述性现象学研究旨在从父母的角度描述19对患有自闭症的双胞胎和三胞胎（N=9）的积极游戏行为。访谈揭示了两个主要主题：（a）父母对主动游戏的描述和（b）父母对社交游戏的描述。研究结果揭示了自闭症双胞胎和三胞胎的不同活跃和社交游戏行为；父母描述了孩子在感官、室内、室外和有组织的游戏中的游戏行为。这些结果表明，自闭症儿童可能以非传统的方式满足了主动游戏的定义。

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Adapted Physical Activity Quarterly 医学-康复医学

CiteScore

3.00

自引率

10.50%

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审稿时长

>12 weeks

期刊介绍： APAQ is an international, peer-reviewed, multidisciplinary journal designed to stimulate and communicate scholarly inquiry relating to physical activity that is adapted in order to enable and enhance performance and participation in people with disability. Physical activity implies fine, gross, functional, and interpretive movement including physical education, recreation, exercise, sport, and dance. The focus of adaptation may be the activity or task that is to be performed, environment and facilities, equipment, instructional methodology, and/or rules governing the performance setting. Among the populations considered are persons with motor, intellectual, sensory, and mental or other disabilities across the life span. Disciplines from which scholarship to this aim may originate include, but are not limited to, physical education, teacher preparation, human development, motor behavior and learning, biomechanics, exercise and sport physiology, and exercise and sport psychology. Scientific inquiry may originate from quantitative or qualitative inquiry, as well as from multimethod designs.