Creative Movement Therapy Benefits Children with Autism

Hartshorn, Kristin; Olds, L.; Field, Tiffany; Delage, Jessie; Cullen, Christy; Escalona, Angelica

doi:10.1080/0300443011660101

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“…Adler [33] documented two children’s developmental and interactional improvements during mirroring-based DMT in her classic video documentation “Looking for me” available through the American Dance Therapy Association (). There is one quantitative intervention study demonstrating beneficial effects of DMT on children with autism [34], and one study on adults with ASD [35] namely the feasibility study for this trial. Hartshorne and colleagues [34] showed that 38 children with autism (ages 3–7), after receiving bi-weekly movement therapy in small groups of 3–8 kids led by a trained movement therapist, spent less time wandering, more time showing on-task behavior, less time showing negative responses to being touched, and less time resisting the teacher compared to a matched control group without movement therapy.…”

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“…There is one quantitative intervention study demonstrating beneficial effects of DMT on children with autism [34], and one study on adults with ASD [35] namely the feasibility study for this trial. Hartshorne and colleagues [34] showed that 38 children with autism (ages 3–7), after receiving bi-weekly movement therapy in small groups of 3–8 kids led by a trained movement therapist, spent less time wandering, more time showing on-task behavior, less time showing negative responses to being touched, and less time resisting the teacher compared to a matched control group without movement therapy. The feasibility study of our research group [35] showed that after seven sessions of manualized dance movement therapy based on mirroring, young adults with ASD reported improved body awareness, well-being (particularly decreased tension), increased self-other distinction and increased social competence compared to a matched control group of the same rehabilitation institution without the intervention [27].…”

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“We Dance and Find Each Other”1: Effects of Dance/Movement Therapy on Negative Symptoms in Autism Spectrum Disorder

Hildebrandt

Koch

Fuchs

2016

Behavioral Sciences

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The treatment of deficits in social interaction, a shared symptom cluster in persons with schizophrenia (negative symptoms) and autism spectrum disorder (DSM-5 A-criterion), has so far remained widely unsuccessful in common approaches of psychotherapy. The alternative approach of embodiment brings to focus body-oriented intervention methods based on a theoretic framework that explains the disorders on a more basic level than common theory of mind approaches. The randomized controlled trial at hand investigated the effects of a 10-week manualized dance and movement therapy intervention on negative symptoms in participants with autism spectrum disorder. Although the observed effects failed to reach significance at the conventional 0.05 threshold, possibly due to an undersized sample, an encouraging trend towards stronger symptom reduction in the treatment group for overall negative symptoms and for almost all subtypes was found at the 0.10-level. Effect sizes were small but clinically meaningful, and the resulting patterns were in accordance with theoretical expectations. The study at hand contributes to finding an effective treatment approach for autism spectrum disorder in accordance with the notion of embodiment.

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“We Dance and Find Each Other”1: Effects of Dance/Movement Therapy on Negative Symptoms in Autism Spectrum Disorder

Hildebrandt

Koch

Fuchs

2016

Behavioral Sciences

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“…Case studies conducted with mainly mirroring interventions with children with ASD report effects on the sensory-motor regulation of the child, as well as the expressive relating with the environment or a movement partner [30]. These outcomes have been confirmed by research studies with children [31] and young adults [32]. …”

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Through the Kinesthetic Lens: Observation of Social Attunement in Autism Spectrum Disorders

Samaritter

Payne

2017

Behavioral Sciences

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This paper will present a movement-informed perspective to social attunement in Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD). Background: Dance movement therapy (DMT) is a psychotherapeutic intervention that is used with participants with ASD in various settings. Regular clinical outcome monitoring in an outpatient setting in the Netherlands had shown positive effects on social attunement capacities in young people with ASD. However, a systematic study of the development of social attunement movement behaviors of participants with ASD throughout a DMT intervention was not yet available. Methods: A series of individual cases of DMT with young people with ASD (mean age 12.2 years.) were analyzed for changes in interpersonal movement behaviors employing video-based retrospective observation. Results: The findings were summarized in an observation scale for interpersonal movement behaviors. This scale was then tested for its applicability for the monitoring of social attunement behaviors throughout therapy. Discussion: A movement-informed perspective may be helpful to inventory changes in social attunement behaviors in participants with ASD. The relevance of a movement-informed perspective for the concept of social attunement in ASD will be discussed.

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“…Treatment of elopement following functional analysis has included functional communication training (Davis et al, ; Falcomata et al, ; Gibson et al, ; Lehardy et al, ), physical exercise (Lang, Kern Kogel et al, 2010; Whitaker & Saleem, ), creative movement therapy (Hartshorn et al, ), differential reinforcement (Call et al, ; Pennington et al, ), extinction and response blocking (Lehardy et al, ), and a variety of treatment packages, including “differential reinforcement, extinction, time out, token economy, response cost, functional communication training, response blocking, and non‐contingent reinforcement” (Lang et al, , pp. 673, 678).…”

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GPS Devices for Elopement of People With Autism and Other Developmental Disabilities: A Review of the Published Literature

Hayward

Ransley²,

Memery³

2016

Policy Practice Intel Disabi

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Elopement, sometimes referred to as absconding, is defined as leaving an area without supervision or carer permission. Global positioning systems (GPS) have been proposed as an intervention for elopement to provide the geographical position of a person who has eloped so that he/she can be located. The authors reviewed the evidence for the use of GPS as an intervention for elopement in people with autism and other developmental disabilities. They found few studies that explored the practicalities of GPS device use among carers of persons with developmental disabilities (most studies have been with carers of people with dementia) and even less research that focused on the testing of the functionality of GPS devices to locate cognitively‐impaired persons. They conclude that this forces the existing empirical research to be sidelined in favor of non‐evidence‐based situational management strategies, of which the use of GPS devices is potentially a viable one. They also note that the results have important implications for policy and practice as there is little evidence to support the widespread recommendation that GPS devices are an effective intervention to prevent risk associated with elopement.

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Creative Movement Therapy Benefits Children with Autism

Cited by 45 publications

References 4 publications

“We Dance and Find Each Other”1: Effects of Dance/Movement Therapy on Negative Symptoms in Autism Spectrum Disorder

“We Dance and Find Each Other”1: Effects of Dance/Movement Therapy on Negative Symptoms in Autism Spectrum Disorder

Through the Kinesthetic Lens: Observation of Social Attunement in Autism Spectrum Disorders

GPS Devices for Elopement of People With Autism and Other Developmental Disabilities: A Review of the Published Literature

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