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Record W4408381072 · doi:10.1155/oti/4415279

Active Play as a Window Into the Worlds of Twins and Triplets With Autism

2025· article· en· W4408381072 on OpenAlex
Marie Abu Itham, Serene Kerpan, Robert Balogh, Meghann Lloyd

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Bibliographic record

VenueOccupational Therapy International · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldPsychology
TopicFamily and Disability Support Research
Canadian institutionsVancouver Island UniversityOntario Tech University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsAutismPsychologyNonprobability samplingDevelopmental psychologyTheme (computing)Window of opportunityValue (mathematics)Strengths and weaknessesPerceptionQualitative researchSocial psychologyMedicinePopulation

Abstract

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Background: Research indicates that play can facilitate communication and emotional connection for children with autism and their parents. Currently, there is no research exploring the perceptions that parents of twins and triplets with autism have regarding their children’s play, despite these parents’ unique opportunity to observe and interpret the play behaviours of multiple same‐age, same‐diagnosis children raised in the same home environment. The purpose of this descriptive phenomenological study was to describe the value that parents of twins and triplets with autism place on active play. Method: The researchers used purposive sampling to recruit abroad sample of mothers ( N = 9) of twins and triplets with autism aged 4–11 years old. Participants took part in one semistructured online interview with the researcher which was then thematically analyzed. Results: One central theme emerged from our analysis. This theme is entitled active play as a “window into a child’s world” and contains five subthemes: (1) parent perceiving child’s strengths and weaknesses in active play, (2) parent facilitating active play experiences, (3) parent perceiving child’s intrinsic motivations for active play, (4) parent interpreting child’s active play behaviours, and (5) active play experiences as a medium for parent/child communication. Conclusions: These findings suggest that parents value active play because it affords them opportunity to observe their children’s characteristics through their active play behaviours (e.g., strengths and weaknesses) and use what they have learned to facilitate new active play experiences that encourage overall development. Through active play, parents also practice communicating verbally and nonverbally with their child.

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Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesInsufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: Observational
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.469
Threshold uncertainty score0.998

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0030.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.037
GPT teacher head0.403
Teacher spread0.366 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it