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Emotional Skills Training with Social Robot
NCT06179953 · Istituto per la Ricerca e l'Innovazione Biomedica · Updated 17 Jan 2025
- What is being tested
- NAO intervention; Traditional intervention
- For
- Autism Spectrum Disorder
- Kind of study
- Tests a treatment or device on volunteers. No drug phase (a device or procedure study).
- Who can join
- Ages 5 years to 10 years. About 20 people. The full rules are on the registry page.
- Where
- Italy
- When
- Starts or started 5 June 2023, ends 24 April 2025. Registered 22 Dec 2023.
- Results
- None posted yet.
In the researchers' words
Autism is a neurodevelopmental disorder that involves difficulties especially in the sphere of social interaction, social communication, and restricted and stereotyped behavior patterns. In particular, emotional regulation is a central developmental skill. In fact, the emotional dysregulation observed in children with autism results in increased social and behavioral difficulties over time. Therefore, the present protocol aims to test the role of a human-assisted social robot as a mediator of social-emotional understanding intervention for children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD). The children, will be divided into two groups, an experimental one in which training will be conducted through the use of social robot and control group which will be conducted through traditional therapy.
Sites
- Institute for Biomedical Research and Innovation (IRIB) - National Research Council (CNR)Messina, Italy, Italy