Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) have motor development delays and
assessing these delays is still seen as a challenge in psychomotor assessment,
mainly to specifically identify areas in which the child is less developed. The aim of
this study was to assess whether psychomotor interventions have any effect on
motor development in children with ASD. The present study is a case study, in a
descriptive way, which sought to analyze and compare the child's motor profile
through the motor development scale (MDS) before and after 20 psychomotricity
sessions. For the evaluated child, his general motor age was -26 months in the first
test and -23 months in the second test, remaining at a negative age (IN), but
reducing his NI by 3 months, increasing his general motor age (IMG ) at 8 months
and his overall motor quotient (QMG) at 3 months in the second test compared to the
first. Its psychomotor components that suffered the main delays were its body
schema and spatial orientation. It was possible to reach the result of delay in their
motor development through the use of EDM.
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