The effects of a selected physical activity course program on motor skills of HFA children between the age of 6 to 8 suffered from autistic disorder

In this paper we are studying the effect of selected physical activity plan on growth of motor skills in children between the age of 6 to 8 who are suffering of Hight Functioning Autisum(HFA). In this semi- experimental study, 30 children (8/4±./7 age of boy) suffering from HFA have been selected from special schools of Shiraz city randomly and put in two groups of control and experimental according to pretest. The Bruininks-Oseretsky test was carried out for HFA children. Selected movement plan (appropriate jump-roping plan) performed for these children in 18 sessions. K-S test to determine the distribution of normal data and Levin & covariance analysis test to compare averages were conducted. The results showed that selected training plan has significant effect on growth of motor skills in children with HFA. But in some details of these criteria including; response speed skill, visual-motor control and upper limb speed & dexterity skills, significant effect was not seen. According to obtained results we can say that selected training plan (jump roping) is likely to improve fundamental skills of HFA children (P</.05).