This study was conducted to find out how much the gross motor skills, such as flexibility, muscle strength, agility, and balance of children with Autism can be improved through MGL program.
The followings were the results found after applying MGL pro...
This study was conducted to find out how much the gross motor skills, such as flexibility, muscle strength, agility, and balance of children with Autism can be improved through MGL program.
The followings were the results found after applying MGL program to four children with Autism.
First, in the flexibility realm, the sub skills were only low posture/ forward bending/ reaching. The effect of the trainning focused on this realm was shown to be excellent, comparing with the effect on the other gross motor skills.
Second, in the muscle strength and agility realm, it showed poor improvement in the sub skills of push-up, while the remarkable effect was on such sub skills as long jump, return running, sit-up, and body location changing. Third, in the balance realm, it showed lowest improvement due to the children's poor coordination, which was to delicate motor skills and balance activity.
Conclusion of this study was that MGL program was effective for the improvement of the gross motor development of children with Autism. Therefore, further studies were suggested that various and specific measures for the practical application of this program were to be applied.