Robot dramas may improve joint attention of Chinese-speaking low-functioning children with autism: stepped wedge trials.

CONCLUSIONS: It was, therefore, concluded that a robot drama could enhance the joint attention of children with low-functioning ASD. Implications for rehabilitation In comparison to typically developing children, children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), especially those with low cognitive functioning, have deficits in joint attention. Robot-based drama intervention program was developed to promote responses to joint attention (RJA) abilities of children with low-functioning autism (IQs < 70). Modelling RJA in robot dramas can promote RJA abilities in these children. An improvement in RJA also yielded an increase in the initiation of joint attention (IJA) abilities. Children with low-functioning autism might be able to extract the initiation of joint attention skills from the drama, even though these behaviours were not explicitly taught. PMID: 33186058 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

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Source: Disability and Rehabilitation. Assistive Technology. - November 13, 2020 Category: Rehabilitation Authors: So WC, Cheng CH, Law WW, Wong T, Lee C, Kwok FY, Lee SH, Lam KY Tags: Disabil Rehabil Assist Technol Source Type: research