The Investigation of Effect of the Basic Skills of Gymnastic Which is Applied to Preschool Autistic Students

The aim of this research is to investigate the physical development in 3-6 aged group of boys and girls students of fitness training which is applied to autistic students who take the special education in Erzurum. The research has been formed with 25 (12 girls and 13 boys) students. The groups have been created in two groups which were 3-4 aged and 5-6 aged. The tests of gross motor development which are walk, run, jump, splash, horizontal jump, gallop leap and the tests of object control skills which are hitting the ball with bat, bouncing ball, thrown ball catch, hitting the ball with foot, throwing ball, ball rolling and height, body weight have been performed to this students.After the measurements of students were made, the training has been done two months (8 weeks) with tailor-made movement education program. After that two months training the measurements were made again and the developments were compared. The statistic analysis of datas in research were obtained with using the SPSS 16.00 software package. In statistical methods, the minimum and maximum values, arithmetic average and standard deviation of students was evaluated. In the research results, the significant improvements have been reached in the tests of walk, run, bouncing ball, thrown ball catch and ball rolling of 3-4 aged group students. (p>0.05) It has been reached that the group of 5-6 aged students have significant improvements (p>0.05) in all of the tests.