protocolSection identificationModule nctId: NCT06342583, orgStudyIdInfo id: CNR-IRIB-PRO-2024-004, briefTitle: Advanced Social Relations Training, statusModule overallStatus: RECRUITING, startDateStruct date: 2024-03-01, primaryCompletionDateStruct date: 2025-03-17, completionDateStruct date: 2026-02-10, studyFirstPostDateStruct date: 2024-04-02, lastUpdatePostDateStruct date: 2024-04-02, sponsorCollaboratorsModule leadSponsor name: Istituto per la Ricerca e l'Innovazione Biomedica, class: OTHER, collaborators name: Messina, Italy, descriptionModule briefSummary: Advanced social relations protocol is aimed at young people with autism aged 9-12 years with an intelligence quotient (IQ) ≥ 80. There will be an experimental group in which technology will be used and a control group in which activities will be carried out in the traditional way. The protocol will be carried out once a week for a duration of 45 minutes. The aim is to enhance communication and social skills within the group. A total of 23 sessions are planned. From the first to the third session the participants will acquire skills for communicating and conversing in an appropriate way. Thereafter from the fourth to the eleventh session social stories illustrating scenes from everyday life will be shown, with the aim of learning and managing the dynamics in which they find themselves on a daily basis. At the end of each story shown they will be asked to impersonate the protagonists depicted in the stories, each participant involved in turn will play all the roles shown in the stories, thus working in the mode of role playing.The last part, which includes sessions from the twelfth to the twenty-third, will be dedicated to the correct and conscious use of social networks with a focus on the risks that can be encountered and the correct ways to make good use of them., conditionsModule conditions: Autism, conditions: Autism Spectrum Disorder, designModule studyType: INTERVENTIONAL, phases: NA, designInfo allocation: RANDOMIZED, interventionModel: PARALLEL, primaryPurpose: TREATMENT, maskingInfo masking: SINGLE, whoMasked: PARTICIPANT, enrollmentInfo count: 30, type: ESTIMATED, armsInterventionsModule interventions name: Advanced social relations training with technical device, interventions name: Advanced social relations training without technical device, outcomesModule primaryOutcomes measure: Vineland-II (Vineland Adaptive Behavior Scales-II - Survey Intervention Form), primaryOutcomes measure: Eye contact, primaryOutcomes measure: Smile in relation to group members' expressions, primaryOutcomes measure: Greeting, primaryOutcomes measure: Asking a question, primaryOutcomes measure: Proposing an idea or activity to be carried out, primaryOutcomes measure: Answering a question, primaryOutcomes measure: Taking verbal initiative, primaryOutcomes measure: Approval/sharing gestures, eligibilityModule sex: ALL, minimumAge: 9 Years, maximumAge: 12 Years, stdAges: CHILD, contactsLocationsModule locations facility: Institute for Biomedical Research and Innovation (IRIB) - National Research Council (CNR), status: RECRUITING, city: Messina, zip: 98164, country: Italy, contacts name: Flavia Marino, role: CONTACT, phone: +393395798263, email: flavia.marino@irib.cnr.it, contacts name: Maria Valeria Maiorana, role: CONTACT, phone: +393285856656, email: mariavaleria.maiorana@irib.cnr.it, contacts name: Flavia Marino, role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR, contacts name: Giovanni Pioggia, role: SUB_INVESTIGATOR, contacts name: Paola Chilà, role: SUB_INVESTIGATOR, contacts name: Roberta Minutoli, role: SUB_INVESTIGATOR, contacts name: Noemi Vetrano, role: SUB_INVESTIGATOR, contacts name: Chiara Failla, role: SUB_INVESTIGATOR, contacts name: Germana Doria, role: SUB_INVESTIGATOR, contacts name: Ileana Scarcella, role: SUB_INVESTIGATOR, contacts name: Cinzia Grasso, role: SUB_INVESTIGATOR, contacts name: Mariaelena Franchina, role: SUB_INVESTIGATOR, geoPoint lat: 38.19394, lon: 15.55256, hasResults: False