Although studies have reported on the overall gross motor skills among Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) children, limited attempts have been made on examining their throwing skills and the effects of different focus of attention (FoA) instructions on acquiring those skills. This study aimed to compare the Fundamental Movement Skills (FMS) and overhand throw skill between the ASD and Typical Developmental (TD) children. Ten ASD and 10 TD children aged from seven to 10 participated in the study. Test of Gross Motor Development (TGMD-2) was used to measure the FMS of both groups. ANCOVA test with age as covariate showed that the overall gross motor skills score of the ASD children were significantly poorer compared to their TD peers, similarly with the overhand throw subtest data analysis by Independent t-test. Followup study examined the effects of different FoA instructions on performing the throwing skill in a modified-petanque game among the ASD children. They were randomly assigned to .....

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