Evaluating the Effect of Use of Technologies to Increase the Cognitive Abilities in Children With Autism Spectrum Disorders
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 发起方
- 入组人数
- 30
- 试验地点
- 2
- 主要终点
- Verbal Behavior Milestones Assessment and Placement Program (VB-MAPP)
研究概览
简要总结
Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) is a therapeutic approach for autism that is based on the principles of behavioral theory, learning, and positive reinforcement. Current research shows that early and intensive ABA intervention is effective in reducing dysfunctional behaviors and promoting learning and enactment of socially appropriate behaviors.
In this context, new approaches that attempt to integrate advanced technologies can play a key role. This experimental protocol aims to test whether the use of advanced technologies, such as tablets, as part of an intervention for a group of children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is more effective than the traditional approach implemented in a control group of children with ASD. The experimental protocol is aimed at enhancing cognitive skills, increasing new skills and acquiring functional/adaptive behaviors.
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Interventional
- 分配方式
- Randomized
- 干预模型
- Parallel
- 主要目的
- Treatment
- 盲法
- Single (Participant)
入排标准
- 年龄范围
- 5 Years 至 12 Years（Child）
- 性别
- All
- 接受健康志愿者
- 否
入选标准
- •Children with diagnosis of autism
排除标准
- •presence of other medical disorders
研究组 & 干预措施
experimental group
15 children belonging to the experimental group will undergo the treatment carries out the procedure by means of stimuli presented with technologies supports
干预措施: Applied Behavior Analysis protocol (Behavioral)
control group
15 children belonging to the control group will undergo the treatment by performing the procedure with images printed on laminated A4 sheets.
干预措施: Traditional intervention (Behavioral)
结局指标
主要结局
Verbal Behavior Milestones Assessment and Placement Program (VB-MAPP)
时间窗: the test need approximately 1 hour
Is an assessment tool that attends to all those skills that are fundamental to the development and enhancement of verbal communication skills and the proper use of language in social interactions. It focuses especially on the assessment of language prerequisites fundamental to the development of verbal behavior in accordance with the classification of verbal operants proposed by Skinner: mand, tact, echoic, intraverbal. It consists of a manual, a protocol and a set of materials (pictures and standardized items for assessment). The protocol is divided into: * Tables * Early Echoic Skills Assessment (EESA) - Assessment of barriers: behaviors that might hinder the child's learning * Assessment of transitions: the child's ability to make the transition to teaching modes based on the natural context * Task Analysis and Skills Monitoring: describes the individual milestones required to reach the main milestone * Scoring grids
次要结局
未报告次要终点
研究者
Flavia Marino
Head of Unit
Istituto per la Ricerca e l'Innovazione Biomedica