U.S., July 14 -- ClinicalTrials.gov registry received information related to the study (NCT07699692) titled 'A Sensory-Profile Framework for Differentiated Swim Instruction in Autistic Children' on June 27.
Brief Summary: Autistic children drown at one-hundred sixty times the rate of their neurotypical peers: a public health crisis that the adapted learning field has only addressed by demonstrating that standard swimming instruction sometimes works for autistic children. This study presents a three-profile framework (sensory-seeking/hyposensitive, sensory-avoidant/hypersensitive, variable/mixed) founded in sensory processing literature, based on ~950 lessons to 65 autistic children (ages 3-15) to determine why this disjunction exists, and ...