Effect of Motorized Elephant-Assisted Therapy Program on Balance Control of Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder

Table 2

Comparison of postural sway between control and experimental groups at pretest and at posttest by using multivariate analyses of variance (MANOVA) at .

Postural sway	Control vs. experimental		Control vs. experimental
	Pretest		Posttest
	(1) EO floor
AP	0.285	0.60	7.376	0.01
ML	0.806	0.38	0.008	0.93
Area	1.165	0.29	1.841	0.19
(2) EC floor
AP	0.767	0.39	4.744	0.04
ML	0.090	0.77	1.502	0.24
Area	0.142	0.71	0.009	0.92
(3) EO foam
AP	0.016	0.90	3.209	0.09
ML	0.979	0.34	1.198	0.29
Area	0.312	0.58	2.125	0.16
(4) EC foam
AP	0.159	0.69	1.756	0.20
ML	0.968	0.34	0.615	0.44
Area	0.250	0.62	1.232	0.28