Neuropsychomotor Functions in Children With Autism Spectrum Disorder

• Conditions: Autism Spectrum Disorder
• Interventions: Behavioral: neuropsychomotor assessment

• Registration Number: NCT01987037
• Lead Sponsor: Centre Hospitalier Esquirol

Brief Summary

The aim of the study is to describe the feasibility of the passation of the assessment battery of psychomotor functions tests (NP-MOT) in children aged 4 to 11 years with a diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder: number and type of evaluable events, number and type of tests with a deficit compared to the standard results.

Detailed Description

After informed consent obtention, the children will be submitted to the different tests of the battery to evaluate the psychomotor functions. The results will be compared with other data collected from the routine practise : socio-demographic data, medical and developmental antecedents,psychological tests (KABC II, Rey test, London Tower test, ...), psychomotor evaluation (MABC, evaluation of manual praxis, visual abilities, Frostig test), understanding data (N-EEL test), neuropediatric examination, clinical assessment (ADI-R, CARS).

The use of this battery allows this fine discriminative assessment of the psychomotor functions involved in the movement. Exploring each function will allow to take into account qualitative and quantitative aspects of the movement in every aspects, and this is not applied in the routine care until now. Calibration for each event can explore each function independently of each other, and will provide information to determine any specific developmental characteristics improve care.

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2013-10
• Study First Submitted: 2013-11-12
• Study First Submitted QC: 2013-11-12
• Study First Posted: 2013-11-19
• Status Verified: 2015-07
• Last Update Submitted: 2015-07-31
• Last Update Posted: 2015-08-03
• Primary Completion: 2016-02
• Study Completion: 2016-02

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: UNKNOWN
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 40

Inclusion Criteria

• informed consent from the parents or the legal representative
• age 4 to 11
• autism spectrum disorder diagnosis according to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, fourth edition- text revised

Exclusion Criteria

• bad understanding of the french language
• motor disability from lesion or accidental origin, proved genetic or neurologic disease
• deafness, blindness
• parents with administrative or judiciary protection, and without health insurance

Study & Design

• Study Type: OBSERVATIONAL
• Study Design: Not specified

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
tests evaluation	neuropsychomotor assessment	children with autism spectrum disorder subjected to the NP-MOT tests

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
results to the NP-MOT tests battery	one day	the NP-MOT battery tests include several tests to evaluate 9 motor functions (muscle tone, gross motor, laterality, fine-digit movement, digital tactile gnosis, hand-eye skill, body spatial orientation, pace, auditory attention) with 48 subtests.; We describe: number and type of evaluable tests, number and type of tests with results with 1 Standard Deviation different from the standard results.; number and type of tests with results with 2 Standard Deviation different from the standard results.

Trial Locations

Locations (2)

Centre Hospitalier esquirol; 🇫🇷 Limoges, France

Centre de Ressources Autisme Limousin; 🇫🇷 Limoges, France