Although such experimental paradigms have been commonly used to assess motor learning in children with motor
disabilities, relevant studies on children with ASD are surprisingly rare. In one of those studies, Larson and Mostofsky (2008)
recruited 13 children with ASD to participate in a force
field adaptation task in which force perturbation on the hand was
changed based on hand velocity during the adaptation phase. It was predicted that children with ASD would show a slower
adaptation rate and smaller after-effects compared to age-matched controls. The results, however, showed that children
with ASD demonstrated significant after-effects (i.e., a measure on positive adaptation) at a similar level to the control
children, indicating that children with ASD can adjust their motor output to the applied proprioceptive perturbations