Motor Learning Transfer Between Real and Virtual Environments in Autism Spectrum Disorder.

Will be evaluated 100 individuals divided into two groups: 50 individuals with diagnosis of Autistic Spectrum Disorder (ASD-group), aged 7 to 15 years old, males and females; and 50 individuals with typical development (TD-group) matched by age and sex to the ASD-group. The ASD-group will be recruited from GAPI - Special Education in São Bernardo do Campo, São Paulo, Brazil, which is a school for children and adolescents with pervasive developmental disorders.

For a diagnosis of ASD, apart from qualitative alterations in social communication and interaction (criterion A) in addition to stereotyped, repetitive, restricted behavior patterns (criterion B), that present in the early developmental period (criterion C), it is also required that these "symptoms cause clinically significant impairment in social, occupational and other important areas of current functioning" (criterion D), and that they are not better explained otherwise (criterion E). Given this information these items will be taken into consideration and the group was well evaluated.

With the purpose to homogenize the sample, will be only included ASD with the 1st level to 5th education to grade elementary.

Instrument For data collection will be used a gaming software created in partnership with the Information Systems group of School of Arts, Sciences and Humanities, EACH-USP.

The game offers task of "Timing" Coincident, which when executed are displayed on the computer screen 10 balls accessing (red light) in sequence until the last ball, which is considered the target (green light). The participant can have immediate feedback of hit or task error by different sounds (Auditory Interaction) and through visual images (Visual Interaction) that change colors, that will be previously shown to him.