Trial reportMolecular autism2018
Robot-based intervention may reduce delay in the production of intransitive gestures in Chinese-speaking preschoolers with autism spectrum disorder.
Trial report in Molecular autism, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 14 papers, 4 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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14 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 63 citations in OpenAlex.
- Assisted Robots in Therapies for Children with Autism in Early Childhood.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Pooled it
- Information and communication technologies-based interventions for children with autism spectrum conditions: a systematic review of randomized control trials from a positive technology perspective.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2023Pooled it
- The use of social robots with children and young people on the autism spectrum: A systematic review and meta-analysis.PloS one · 2022Pooled it
- Psychosocial Health Interventions by Social Robots: Systematic Review of Randomized Controlled Trials.Journal of medical Internet research · 2019Pooled it
- A Robot-Based Play-Drama Intervention May Improve the Joint Attention and Functional Play Behaviors of Chinese-Speaking Preschoolers with Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Pilot Study.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2020Trial
- Examining Phenotypical Heterogeneity and its Underlying Factors in Gesture Skills of Chinese Autistic Children: Clustering Analysis.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2024Article
- People with Autism Spectrum Disorder Could Interact More Easily with a Robot than with a Human: Reasons and Limits.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Review
- The pillars of inclusive education for students with ASD: a scoping review based on the case of Spain.International journal of developmental disabilities · 2024Article
- Interactive mirrOring Games wIth sOCial rObot (IOGIOCO): a pilot study on the use of intransitive gestures in a sample of Italian preschool children with autism spectrum disorder.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2024Article
- Review of assistive technology in the training of children with autism spectrum disorders.International journal of developmental disabilities · 2022Review
- Human-robot interaction for social skill development in children with ASD: A literature review.Healthcare technology letters · 2021Article
- Electroencephalographic Correlate of Mexican Spanish Emotional Speech Processing in Autism Spectrum Disorder: To a Social Story and Robot-Based Intervention.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2021Article
- Gestures in Storytelling by Preschool Chinese-Speaking Children With and Without Autism.Frontiers in psychology · 2020Article
- Computer- and Robot-Assisted Therapies to Aid Social and Intellectual Functioning of Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2019Review
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11 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.
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Abstract
Background: Past studies have shown that robot-based intervention was effective in improving gestural use in children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD). The present study examined whether children with ASD could catch up to the level of gestural production found in age-matched children with typical development and whether they showed an increase in verbal imitation after the completion of robot-based training. We also explored the cognitive and motor skills associated with gestural learning. Methods: Children with ASD were randomly assigned to two groups. Four- to 6-year-old children with ASD in the intervention group ( Results: Children with ASD in the intervention condition were more likely to produce accurate or appropriate intransitive gestures in training and novel stories than those in the wait-list control. The positive learning outcomes were maintained in the delayed posttests. The level of gestural production accuracy in children with ASD in the delayed posttest of novel stories was comparable to that in children with typical development, suggesting that children with ASD could catch up to the level of gestural production found in children with typical development. Children with ASD in the intervention condition were also more likely to produce verbal markers while gesturing than those in the wait-list control. Gestural recognition skills were found to significantly predict the learning of gestural production accuracy in the children with ASD, with such relation partially mediated via spontaneous imitation. Conclusions: Robot-based intervention may reduce the gestural delay in children with ASD in their early childhood.
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