An inquiry into how parents of children with autism spectrum disorder interact with their children in a motor skill-based play setting
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What this paper adds?
This study investigated similarities and differences between parental behaviors of parents of children with and without autism spectrum disorder (ASD) in a social-play based setting and a motor skill-based play setting. Various parental behaviors such as encouragement, negativity, sensitivity, detachment, and intrusiveness were examined in two distinctly different play settings. This study adds how parental behaviors of parents of children with ASD differ from parental behaviors of parents of
Method
18 parents/caregivers of children with and without ASD (ASD = 9 and TD = 9; children between the ages of 2 and 7 years) were recruited for this study. Descriptive information on participant characteristics is presented Table 1. All procedures for this study was approved by the University Institutional Review Board (IRB).
Results
Descriptive information about the play settings can be found in Table 2. There were statistically significant correlations within and between settings in respect to parental behaviors. Significant correlations of parental behaviors ranged from −.58 to −.76 in the social-play setting and -.68 to 0.82 in the motor skill based play setting. Parental encouragement was correlated at 0.47 and parental detachment was correlated at - 0.60 between settings. None of the other behaviors between settings
Discussion
The current study extends previous findings of parental behaviors of children with ASD by including a motor skill-based play setting which is distinctly different from a social-play based setting. In this study, various parental behaviors (i.e., parental encouragement, negativity, sensitivity, detachment, and intrusiveness) of parents of children with ASD and parental behaviors of parents of TD children were compared both in a social-play based setting and in a motor skill-based play setting.
Declaration of Competing Interest
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