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ReviewBehavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland)2022

Virtual Reality Technology as an Educational and Intervention Tool for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder: Current Perspectives and Future Directions.

Minyue Zhang, Hongwei Ding, Meri Naumceska, Yang Zhang

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Review in Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland), 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT05930873 (Evaluating the Effect of Immersive Room Intervention on Visual Attention in Children With Autism Spectrum Disorders), which is not on this map. Cited by 49 papers, 6 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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49citing papers in PubMed, 6 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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.

NCT05930873 naunknown statusnot on this map

Evaluating the Effect of Immersive Room Intervention on Visual Attention in Children With Autism Spectrum Disorders

TypeinterventionalSponsorIstituto per la Ricerca e l'Innovazione BiomedicaRan2022 to 2024Enrolled30ConditionsAutism Spectrum Disorder, AutismArmsImmersive room, stimuli in a paper format
3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

49 citing papers in PubMed, 6 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

  1. Digital Horizons: Enhancing Autism Support with Augmented Reality.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2026
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  8. Digital Psychiatry with Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality: Recent Advances and Limitations.Clinical psychopharmacology and neuroscience : the official scientific journal of the Korean College of Neuropsychopharmacology · 2026
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  13. Novel therapeutics in autism spectrum disorder.Neurotherapeutics : the journal of the American Society for Experimental NeuroTherapeutics · 2026
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Minyue ZhangSpeech-Language-Hearing Center, School of Foreign Languages, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China.ORCID 0000-0002-4428-2500
Hongwei DingSpeech-Language-Hearing Center, School of Foreign Languages, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China.
Meri Naumceska70 Flowers Association for Early Intervention and Education of Children with Autism, 1000 Skopje, North Macedonia.
Yang ZhangDepartment of Speech-Language-Hearing Sciences, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-6777-3487

Funding

National Social Science Foundation of China 18ZDA293
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The worldwide rising trend of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) calls for innovative and efficacious techniques for assessment and treatment. Virtual reality (VR) technology gains theoretical support from rehabilitation and pedagogical theories and offers a variety of capabilities in educational and interventional contexts with affordable products. VR is attracting increasing attention in the medical and healthcare industry, as it provides fully interactive three-dimensional simulations of real-world settings and social situations, which are particularly suitable for cognitive and performance training, including social and interaction skills. This review article offers a summary of current perspectives and evidence-based VR applications for children with ASD, with a primary focus on social communication, including social functioning, emotion recognition, and speech and language. Technology- and design-related limitations, as well as disputes over the application of VR to autism research and therapy, are discussed, and future directions of this emerging field are highlighted with regards to application expansion and improvement, technology enhancement, linguistic diversity, and the development of theoretical models and brain-based research.

Indexed as

autism spectrum disorderchildhood and adolescenceeducationinterventionvirtual reality

Identifiers

PMID35621435
PMCPMC9137951

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