Comparison of the behavioral and motoric performances of autistic individuals according to their involvement in sports ___________________________________________________________________________________________

The aim of this study was to determine effect of participation to sport activities on big and minor motor skills with some behavour problems of autistic disabled children.65 autistic disabled children who make sport regulaly and 30 autistic disabled children who don?t make sport regularly were joined in research. A survey aspiring to establish big and minor motor skills with some behavour problems of subjects was applied as data collection material. SPSS 15.0 for Windows program was used to analyze of obtained data. Frequency analyze was used to express age, gender and state of make sport as percentile. Mann Whitney U test was used to make comparasion.As data of research, it was revealed that autistic disabled children who make sport carried out big motor skills more frequency then autistic disabled children who don?t make sport. Similary to that, when realization frequencies of minor motor skills was examined, values which was obtained by make sport was appeared at better level. There was no significant difference between two groups in climb up stairs from big motor skills and paper tear from minor motor skills motions. When the behaviour problems shown by two groups was compared, it was determined that groups which made sport carried out more little level thirteen pieces of totaly twenty behaviour problems. It was found that only seven behaviour problems was seen similar frequency in each of two groupsAs a result, it was established that participation to sport is developed some physical features of autistic disabled children and reduced their?s some behaviour problems. With revealed this results, we can say that sport have an important place in development of autistic disabled children.Keywords: Autistic children, physical activity, motor skill, behaviour problems