{"id":3118,"date":"2011-08-12T06:00:12","date_gmt":"2011-08-12T11:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/k12teacherstaffdevelopment.com\/tlb\/?p=3118"},"modified":"2019-03-27T14:28:48","modified_gmt":"2019-03-27T19:28:48","slug":"autism-in-children-physical-development","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/k12teacherstaffdevelopment.com\/tlb\/autism-in-children-physical-development\/","title":{"rendered":"Autism in Children: Physical Development"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/professionallearningboard.com\/blog\/\"> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"check_out_the_new_blog\" title=\"Check Out the New Blog\" alt=\"Check Out the New Blog\"  src=\"https:\/\/k12teacherstaffdevelopment.com\/images\/check_out_the_new_blog.jpg\"><\/a> <span style=\"font-size: small\"><a href=\"https:\/\/k12teacherstaffdevelopment.com\/tlb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/12Autism-in-Children-Physical-development.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3119\" style=\"border: 4px solid black;margin: 5px 10px\" src=\"https:\/\/k12teacherstaffdevelopment.com\/tlb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/12Autism-in-Children-Physical-development.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a>Autism in children often results in delays in their physical development. It affects the lower brain which is responsible for the child&#8217;s balance and coordination. The muscle tone of children with autism may also be different from that of typical students.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small\">Most of the time, both gross and fine motor activities are affected by autism. Adjusting the tightness or looseness of muscles is a job of the lower brain. <\/span><span style=\"font-size: small\">Making smooth changes and transition of muscles can therefore be difficult. For these students, lack of a mental map of the body and an inability to adjust to gravity often interfere with their large motor movements.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small\">This can result in their movements being slow or unpredictable. And, this issue often makes regular gym courses and sports difficult. That said, organized regular movement programs are very healthful for all students, especially those on the spectrum.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small\">Autism in children also affects fine motor activities such as writing, drawing and music making.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>From Professional Learning Board\u2019s online continuing education course for teachers: <a href=\"https:\/\/k12teacherstaffdevelopment.com\/tlb\/introduction-to-autism-class\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Introduction to Autism<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>  Autism in children often results in delays in their physical development. It affects the lower brain which is responsible for the child&#8217;s balance and coordination. The muscle tone of children with autism may also be different from that of typical students.<br \/>\nMost of the time, both gross and fine motor activities are affected by [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1335,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1,38],"tags":[232,137,245,247,244,246],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/k12teacherstaffdevelopment.com\/tlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3118"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/k12teacherstaffdevelopment.com\/tlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/k12teacherstaffdevelopment.com\/tlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/k12teacherstaffdevelopment.com\/tlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1335"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/k12teacherstaffdevelopment.com\/tlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3118"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/k12teacherstaffdevelopment.com\/tlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24848,"href":"https:\/\/k12teacherstaffdevelopment.com\/tlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3118\/revisions\/24848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/k12teacherstaffdevelopment.com\/tlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/k12teacherstaffdevelopment.com\/tlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/k12teacherstaffdevelopment.com\/tlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}