Regular moderate‐to‐vigorous physical activity (MVPA) has been linked to improved bone health, muscular fitness, cognitive function, sleep, and a reduced risk of depression and obesity. Many children are not engaging in the recommended amount of physical activity. Furthermore, children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) were found to engage in less physical activity than their peers of typical development. We extended previous research by conducting a physical activity context assessment, which included a comparison of indoor to outdoor activities to evaluate which environment produced the lowest percent of MVPA as recorded by the Observational System for Recording Physical Activity in Children. Given the utility of activity schedules to increase self‐management and independent engagement during unstructured and low‐preferred tasks, we then taught 3 preschool children diagnosed with ASD to use photographic activity schedules to increase the number of different activities that met the definition of MVPA in the 2 lowest‐responding conditions of the physical activity context assessment. MVPA remained low during baseline sessions for all participants and immediately increased with the introduction of activity schedule teaching. All participants quickly met activity schedule teaching mastery criterion and demonstrated high levels of MVPA in generalization and maintenance probes without additional teaching.

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摄影活动计划对自闭症谱系障碍儿童中度至剧烈体力活动的影响

规律的中度至剧烈运动 (MVPA) 与改善骨骼健康、肌肉健康、认知功能、睡眠以及降低抑郁和肥胖的风险有关。许多孩子没有进行推荐的体育活动量。此外，发现患有自闭症谱系障碍 (ASD) 的儿童比正常发育的同龄人从事更少的体育活动。我们通过进行身体活动环境评估扩展了先前的研究，其中包括室内与室外活动的比较，以评估哪种环境产生的 MVPA 百分比最低，如记录儿童身体活动的观察系统所记录的那样. 鉴于活动时间表在非结构化和低偏好任务中增加自我管理和独立参与的效用，我们随后教 3 名被诊断患有 ASD 的学龄前儿童使用摄影活动时间表来增加满足 MVPA 定义的不同活动的数量身体活动环境评估的 2 个最低反应条件。在所有参与者的基线会议期间，MVPA 仍然很低，并随着活动时间表教学的引入而立即增加。所有参与者都很快达到了活动计划教学掌握标准，并在没有额外教学的情况下在泛化和维护探针中展示了高水平的 MVPA。