Computer-Mediated Intervention to Enhance Emotional Competence in Children With Autism in Schools
NCT ID: NCT05902832
Last Updated: 2023-06-15
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Basic Information
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UNKNOWN
NA
130 participants
INTERVENTIONAL
2022-03-01
2023-12-01
Brief Summary
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Numerous approaches to teaching people with autism how to recognize and understand emotions have been tried, with recent increased interest in computer-based interventions (CBI). However, most of the research focused only on facial expressions, were limited to autistic children with no intellectual disabilities (ID); and showed limited generalization to real social settings. EmotiPlay, a computer-based intervention program, designed to enhance emotion recognition (ER) by addressing multiple modalities of emotional cues (facial expressions, tone of voice, body language), has shown good outcome when used at home by autistic children and no ID . However, the examination of generalization was partial and depended only on parental reports.
The present study main goals are to: (1) Examine the adaptation and the integration of EmotiPlay into special education classrooms in regular schools. (2) Assess EmotiPlay's effect on emotional competence among autistic children at different functioning levels.
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Detailed Description
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the first stage is a Pilot, who's main goals are to examine the adaptation and integration of EmotiPlay's intervention to a school setting with autistic children at various ages and levels of functioning, and to test an extended EC battery for EmotiPlay's evaluation.
The pilot includes 5 special education classes that will take part at a short version of the intervention program, and a control group of neurotypical children matched in intellectual and linguistic abilities.
the second stage will include 150 participants, divided into three groups: 60 7-10-year-old autistic children who will participate in the intervention program; 60 7-10-year-old autistic children who will not participate in the intervention; and 30 neuro-typical children matched in cognitive and linguistic skills.
All participant will undergo a pre-assessment tests that include: (1) multi-modal basic and complex ER (2) emotion understanding based on a standardized measure (the Test of Emotion Comprehension - TEC) (3) an emotion definition task (4) a story- telling task (5) an observation of children's prosocial behavior during free-playtime (using the Playground Observation of Peer Engagement - POPE). After evaluations participants will be randomly divided into two groups, the first group will take part in the intervention program and the second will be the control group.
EmotiPlay's intervention program will be administered by a certified educational staff for 18 weeks (36 lessons).
All participant will be evaluated immediately after the intervention; and 15 weeks post-intervention.
The important contribution of this study is twofold. It integrates an intervention program to promote emotional competence into the educational system, which serves as a major platform for acquiring social skills. Concurrently, it offers a way to assess the social functioning in real life situations of children with autism at different levels of functioning.
Conditions
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Study Design
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RANDOMIZED
PARALLEL
SUPPORTIVE_CARE
TRIPLE
Study Groups
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Experimental group - Autistic children
60 7-10-years-old autistic children, from special education classes integrated in regular schools.
this group will receive EmotiPlay's intervention in the curriculum.
EmotiPlay
EmotiPlay is a computer-based intervention program, designed to enhance emotion recognition (ER) by addressing multiple modalities of emotional cues (facial expressions, tone of voice, body language),
Control group- Autistic children
60 7-10-years-old autistic children, from special education classes integrated in regular schools.
this group will be wait-listed and receive treatment as usual.
No interventions assigned to this group
Control group-Neurotypical
30 6-10-years-old children, from regular education match in cognitive and linguistic abilities.
No interventions assigned to this group
Interventions
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EmotiPlay
EmotiPlay is a computer-based intervention program, designed to enhance emotion recognition (ER) by addressing multiple modalities of emotional cues (facial expressions, tone of voice, body language),
Eligibility Criteria
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Inclusion Criteria
Exclusion Criteria
6 Years
11 Years
ALL
Yes
Sponsors
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Bar-Ilan University, Israel
OTHER
Responsible Party
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Ofer Golan
Prof. Ofer Golan
Locations
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Bar Ilan University
Ramat Gan, , Israel
Countries
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References
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Fridenson-Hayo S, Berggren S, Lassalle A, Tal S, Pigat D, Bolte S, Baron-Cohen S, Golan O. Basic and complex emotion recognition in children with autism: cross-cultural findings. Mol Autism. 2016 Dec 19;7:52. doi: 10.1186/s13229-016-0113-9. eCollection 2016.
Golan O, Baron-Cohen S, Golan Y. The 'Reading the Mind in Films' Task [child version]: complex emotion and mental state recognition in children with and without autism spectrum conditions. J Autism Dev Disord. 2008 Sep;38(8):1534-41. doi: 10.1007/s10803-007-0533-7. Epub 2008 Feb 29.
Macrostructure, microstructure, and mental state terms in the narratives of English-Hebrew bilingual preschool children with and without specific language impairment. Applied PsychoLinguistics, 37(1), 165-193.
Other Identifiers
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Bar Ilan University
Identifier Type: -
Identifier Source: org_study_id
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