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Adherence and acceptability of a robot-assisted Pivotal Response Treatment protocol for children with autism spectrum disorder.
Trial report in Scientific reports, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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10 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 63 citations in OpenAlex.
- Parental involvement in robot-mediated intervention: a systematic review.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Pooled it
- A Systematic Review of Research on Robot-Assisted Therapy for Children with Autism.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Pooled 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
- Enhancing theory of mind in autism through humanoid robot interaction in a randomized controlled trial.Scientific reports · 2025Trial
- Effectiveness of a Robot-Assisted Psychological Intervention for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2024Trial
- New intelligent music therapy method for applications of enhancing social skills of autism children based on TL-GCN and deep learning.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- The Effects of Robots on Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Meta-analysis.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2025Article
- People with Autism Spectrum Disorder Could Interact More Easily with a Robot than with a Human: Reasons and Limits.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Review
- Brief Report: Neuroimaging Endophenotypes of Social Robotic Applications in Autism Spectrum Disorder.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2021Article
- Presidential Address, 2020-Using Technology to Deliver Services and Supports in Homes, Neighborhoods, and Communities: Evidence and Promise.Intellectual and developmental disabilities · 2020Review
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11 authors at 6 institutions in 1 country.
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Abstract
The aim of this study is to present a robot-assisted therapy protocol for children with ASD based on the current state-of-the-art in both ASD intervention research and robotics research, and critically evaluate its adherence and acceptability based on child as well as parent ratings. The robot-assisted therapy was designed based on motivational components of Pivotal Response Treatment (PRT), a highly promising and feasible intervention focused at training "pivotal" (key) areas such as motivation for social interaction and self-initiations, with the goal of establishing collateral gains in untargeted areas of functioning and development, affected by autism spectrum disorders. Overall, children (3-8 y) could adhere to the robot-assisted therapy protocol (Mean percentage of treatment adherence 85.5%), showed positive affect ratings after therapy sessions (positive in 86.6% of sessions) and high robot likability scores (high in 79.4% of sessions). Positive likability ratings were mainly given by school-aged children (H(1) = 7.91, p = .005) and related to the movements, speech and game scenarios of the robot. Parent ratings on the added value of the robot were mainly positive (Mean of 84.8 on 0-100 scale), while lower parent ratings were related to inflexibility of robot behaviour.
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