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 .