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Trial reportJournal of autism and developmental disorders2015

Computer-Assisted Face Processing Instruction Improves Emotion Recognition, Mentalizing, and Social Skills in Students with ASD.

Linda Marie Rice, Carla Anne Wall, Adam Fogel, Frederick Shic

Abstract readRandomized Controlled Trial
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In one paragraph

Trial report in Journal of autism and developmental disorders, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 44 papers, 8 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

44 citing papers in PubMed, 8 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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  2. Meta-analysis of Psychotherapy for Autistic Youth.Child psychiatry and human development · 2026
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  11. Randomized Trial of a Computer-Assisted Intervention for Children With Autism in Schools.Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry · 2020
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  12. Promoting social attention in 3-year-olds with ASD through gaze-contingent eye tracking.Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism Research · 2020
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  20. Paths to Common Ground in ASD.Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism Research · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Linda Marie RiceMoorpark Unified School District, 5297 Maureen Lane, Moorpark, CA, 93021, USA, lrice@mrpk.org.
Carla Anne Wall
Adam Fogel
Frederick Shic

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This study examined the extent to which a computer-based social skills intervention called FaceSay was associated with improvements in affect recognition, mentalizing, and social skills of school-aged children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). FaceSay offers students simulated practice with eye gaze, joint attention, and facial recognition skills. This randomized control trial included school-aged children meeting educational criteria for autism (N = 31). Results demonstrated that participants who received the intervention improved their affect recognition and mentalizing skills, as well as their social skills. These findings suggest that, by targeting face-processing skills, computer-based interventions may produce changes in broader cognitive and social-skills domains in a cost- and time-efficient manner.

Indexed as

Computer-Assisted InstructionEmotionsFacial ExpressionRecognition, PsychologySocial SkillsTheory of MindAutism Spectrum DisorderChildChild, PreschoolFemaleHumansMaleStudents

Identifiers

PMID25694364

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