534 Jul & Aug 2024. Volume 13. Num 3 Background and Aims Body percussion improves cognive, visual-spaal, and psychomotor skills such as body awareness, hand-eye coordinaon and wring skills, as well as laterality, social-emoonal smuli, and friendly relaonships of the students. In addion to educaonal effects, this method has also led to the development of motor skills, aenon, coordinaon, memory, and social interacon in paents with neurological disorders. This study aims to invesgate the effecveness of body percussion on the motor and social skills of boys with ausm. Methods The study is quasi-experimental with an intervenon. The research employed a pre-test-post- test design with a control group. The stascal populaon of this study comprised boys with ausm (an age range of 8 to 14 years) studying at Tabassom 1 Elementary School in Mashhad City, Iran (allocated for ausm spectrum disorders), in the academic year 2020-2021. The research populaon size was considered to be 55 students. In this study, the number of parcipants is 15 in the experimental group and 15 in the control group. The sampling was done through convenience sampling based on the inclusion criteria. The analysis of covariance was used to determine the stascal significance. Results The Mean±SD age of children parcipang in the study was 11.2±0.34 years. Aſter controlling the pre-test, significant differences were observed between the experimental and control groups regarding the motor skills variable (P<0.05). However, there was no significant difference between the experimental and control groups regarding the social skills variable (P>0.05) aſter controlling the pre-test. Conclusion Based on the findings, body percussion intervenon is a physically never-ending smulus and almost easily available. Thus, it can affect the motor skills of ausc students as a therapeuc modality. However, it has no significant effects on social skills and needs further evaluaon. Keywords Body percussion exercises, Motor skills, Social skills, Ausm A B S T R A C T Received: 07 April 2022 Accepted: 20 Nov 2022 Available Online: 22 Jul 2024 Citaon Man Sadr N, Ramezani N, Zohoorian Z, Man Sadr F, Ruzban R, Gharebaghy S, et al. [Effecveness of Body Percussion Exercises on Motor and Social Skills of Male Children With Ausm in Mashhad, Iran (Persian)]. Scienfic Journal of Rehabilitaon Medicine. 2024; 13(3):534-545. hps://dx.doi.org/10.32598/SJRM.13.3.3030 https://dx.doi.org/10.32598/SJRM.13.3.3030 Use your device to scan and read the article online Research Paper Effecveness of Body Percussion Exercises on Motor and Social Skills of Male Children With Ausm in Mashhad, Iran 1. Department of Occupaonal Therapy, Faculty of Rehabilitaon, Al-Sabtain University for Medical Sciences, Kerbala, Iraq. 2. Department of Educaonal Psychology, Faculty of Psychology, Shandiz Higher Educaon Instute, Mashhad, Iran. 3. Department of English, Faculty of Human Sciences, Mashhad Branch, Islamic Azad University, Mashhad, Iran. 4. Department of Praccal Informacs, Faculty of Computer Science, Deggendorf Instute of Technology, Deggendorf, Germany. 5. Department of Occupaonal Therapy, Faculty of Rehabilitaon, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran. 6. Department of Occupaonal Therapy, School of Paramedical and Rehabilitaon Sciences Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran. 7. Department of Social Work, School of Paramedical and Rehabilitaon Sciences, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran. Nader Man Sadr 1 , Nafise Ramezani 2 , Zahra Zohoorian 3 , Farbod Man Sadr 4 , Reza Ruzban 5 , Soraya Gharebaghy 6 , *Maliheh Khalva 7 * Corresponding Author: Maliheh Khalva, Assistant Professor. Address: Department of Social Work, School of Paramedical and Rehabilitaon Sciences, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran. Tel: +98 (917) 7317699 E-Mail: ma.khalva@yahoo.com Copyright © 2024 The Author(s); This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC-By-NC: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/legalcode.en), which permits use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited and is not used for commercial purposes.