Gait Symmetry in Children with Autism.pdf.pdf

Hindawi Publishing CorporationAutism Research and TreatmentVolume 2012, Article ID576478,5pagesdoi: StudyGait Symmetry in Children with AutismVictoria L. Chester and Matthew CalhounAndrew and Marjorie McCain Human Performance Laboratory, Richard J. Currie Center, Faculty of Kinesiology,University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, NB, Canada E3B 5A3Correspondence should be addressed to Victoria L. Chester,******@ 6 December 2011; Accepted 21 March 2012Academic Editor: Klaus-Peter OssenkoppCopyright ? 2012 V. L. Chester and M. Calhoun. This is an open access article distributed under the monsAttribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work isproperly studies examining gait asymmetry have focused on infants and toddlers and have tended to use subjective methods ofevaluating movement. No previous studies have examined gait symmetry in older children with autism using objective motioncapture systems. The purpose of this paper was to quantify gait symmetry in children with autism versus age-matched children with autism (N=14) and twenty-two (N=22) age, height, and weight-matched controls participatedin the study. An eight camera Vicon motion capture system and four Kistler force plates were used pute temporal-spatial parameters and symmetry