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ArticleJournal of technology in behavioral science2021

Social Skills Training for Autism Spectrum Disorder: a Meta-analysis of In-person and Technological Interventions.

Erin E Soares, Kimberly Bausback, Charlotte L Beard, Megan Higinbotham, Eduard L Bunge, Grace W Gengoux

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Article in Journal of technology in behavioral science, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT07594171 (Comparative Outcomes of VR and In-person NDBI-informed Social Skills Interventions for Preschool-aged Children With Autism Spectrum Disorder), which is not on this map. Cited by 44 papers, 7 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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.

NCT07594171 nacompletednot on this mapstarted 2023, after this paper: background citation

Comparative Outcomes of VR and In-person NDBI-informed Social Skills Interventions for Preschool-aged Children With Autism Spectrum Disorder

TypeinterventionalSponsorNational Cheng-Kung University HospitalRan2023 to 2025Enrolled32ConditionsAutism Spectrum Disorder High-Functioning, Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD)ArmsVirtual Reality-Based Social Skills Group Intervention, In-Person Social Skills Group Intervention
3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

44 citing papers in PubMed, 7 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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  9. Program for the Education and Enrichment of Relational Skills (PEERSJournal of autism and developmental disorders · 2025
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  14. Novel therapeutics in autism spectrum disorder.Neurotherapeutics : the journal of the American Society for Experimental NeuroTherapeutics · 2026
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  19. The Impact of Social Media & Technology on Child and Adolescent Mental Health.Journal of psychiatry and psychiatric disorders · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Erin E SoaresDepartment of Clinical Psychology at the Pacific Graduate School of Psychology, Palo Alto University, Palo Alto, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-1662-9674
Kimberly BausbackDepartment of Clinical Psychology at the Pacific Graduate School of Psychology, Palo Alto University, Palo Alto, USA.
Charlotte L BeardDepartment of Clinical Psychology at the Pacific Graduate School of Psychology, Palo Alto University, Palo Alto, USA.
Megan HiginbothamDepartment of Clinical Psychology at the Pacific Graduate School of Psychology, Palo Alto University, Palo Alto, USA.
Eduard L BungeDepartment of Clinical Psychology at the Pacific Graduate School of Psychology, Palo Alto University, Palo Alto, USA.
Grace W GengouxDepartment of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA USA.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Social skills training (SST) for autism spectrum disorder (ASD) has traditionally focused on face-to-face (F2F-SST) interventions. Recently, Behavioral Intervention Technologies (BITs-SST) have been utilized to target social skills deficits using computer-based programs, avatars, and therapeutic robots. The present meta-analysis reviews recent evidence and compares the efficacy of 14 F2F-SST and four identified BITs-SST intervention trials for youth with ASD. These preliminary analyses did not indicate significant differences between F2F-SST and BITs-SST, with effect sizes consistently in the medium to high range (

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Autism spectrum disorderBehavior intervention technologiesFace-to-faceMeta-analysisSocial skills training

Identifiers

PMID33225056
PMCPMC7670840

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