Better Understand Motor Deficits Associated With Autism Spectrum Disorders: Development of an Assessment Protocol

Inclusion Criteria :

All participants :

• Be between 6 and 11 years old

• Mastery of the French language

• Be affiliated with a Social Security scheme or benefit from affiliation by a third person

• Both parents (or the holder of legal authority) have read, understood and signed the study consent

• Be affiliated with social security

Participants with ASD should also verify the following inclusion criteria:

• Being diagnosed with ASD (DSM-V)

Exclusion Criteria :

All participants :

• Refusal to participate in the research on the part of the participant and / or holders of parental authority.

• Be a person benefiting from enhanced protection, namely : persons deprived of their liberty by a judicial or administrative decision, persons staying in a health or social establishment.

• Have uncorrected visual or hearing problems

• To have concomitant psychotropic drug treatments not stabilized, initiated in the last 2 months: antipsychotics, mood stabilizers, anti-epileptics, psychostimulants, antidepressants.

• Have a motor handicap of the upper or lower limbs, fitted or not.

• Have diagnosed neurological or psychiatric disorders, present a general or metabolic pathology having a known impact on the child's motor skills (eg: Epilepsy, Tics and Gilles de la Tourette Syndrome, Intellectual Deficiency, Neuromuscular Syndrome, Metabolic Neurological Syndrome , neoplasms)

• Suspicion of low intellectual efficiency if at least one of the two subtests (Similarities or Matrices) of WISC V (retrieved from the medical file if the TSA participant) presents a result (standard score) strictly lower than 7.

Participants without ASD :

• Participant with ADHD (Attention Deficit Disorder with or without Hyperactivity) or CDD (Developmental Coordination Disorder)