Brief Report: Autistic Children's Attentiveness and Responsivity Improve after Touch Therapy.

Field, Tiffany; Lasko, David; Mundy, Peter; Henteleff, Tanja; Kabat, Susan; Talpins, Susan; Dowling, Monica

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ERIC Number: EJ550620

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Publication Date: 1997

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Brief Report: Autistic Children's Attentiveness and Responsivity Improve after Touch Therapy.

Field, Tiffany; Lasko, David; Mundy, Peter; Henteleff, Tanja; Kabat, Susan; Talpins, Susan; Dowling, Monica

Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, v27 n3 p333-38 Jun 1997

A study of 22 preschool children with autism investigated touch therapy effects on problems commonly associated with autism including inattentiveness, touch aversion, and withdrawal. Orienting to irrelevant sounds and stereotypic behaviors decreased in both the touch therapy and the touch control group; however, orienting decreased more in the touch therapy group. (CR)

Descriptors: Attention Control, Autism, Behavior Patterns, Outcomes of Treatment, Preschool Children, Therapy, Withdrawal (Psychology)

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research

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Language: English

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