Clinical trial NCT05841511: Effectiveness of Chinese Handwriting Intervention Program for Children With ASD
Official title: Effectiveness of Chinese Handwriting Intervention Program for Children With ASD: A Randomized Crossover Trail
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: NA
Conditions: Autism Spectrum Disorder
Keywords: handwriting performance
neurodevelopmental disorder
visual perceptual skills
fine motor skills
visual motor integration skills
Lead sponsor: National Taiwan University Hospital
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2023-05-03
Enrollment: 22
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 6
Maximum age (years): 9
Standard ages: CHILD
Accepts healthy volunteers: no
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: CROSSOVER
Primary purpose: TREATMENT

Brief summary: This research aims to investigate the effectiveness and acceptability of the newly developed Chinese handwriting performance intervention program


Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

1. first or second grader
2. reported problems with poor handwriting legibility or performed less readable handwriting as claimed by their school teachers or caregivers
3. score at most 33 scores in overall legibility dimension or at-least 45 incorrect strokes in Chinese Handwriting Legibility Assessment for Children (CHLAC)
4. previously diagnosed with ASD
5. and score at least seven scores in Autism Behavior Checklist Taiwan Version (ABC-T) will be included in this study.

Exclusion Criteria:

1. any physical disability affecting the upper limb
2. any hearing or visual impairment
3. intelligence quotient below 70 or previously diagnosed with intellectual disability
4. unable to follow the evaluation instruction.

Primary outcomes:
measure: Changes of Chinese Handwriting Legibility Assessment for Children (CHLAC)
timeFrame: baseline assessment (1st week), assessment 1- midway (5th week), and assessment 2-final (10th week)
measure: Changes of The Battery of Chinese Basic Literacy (BCBL)
timeFrame: baseline assessment (1st week), assessment 1- midway (5th week), and assessment 2-final (10th week)
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Changes of Beery-Buktenica Developmental Test of Visual-Motor Integration - Sixth Edition (VMI-6)
timeFrame: baseline assessment (1st week), assessment 1- midway (5th week), and assessment 2-final (10th week)
measure: Changes of Developmental Test of Visual Perception - Third Edition (DTVP-3)
timeFrame: baseline assessment (1st week), assessment 1- midway (5th week), and assessment 2-final (10th week)
measure: Changes of Test of Visual Perceptual Skills - Fourth Edition (TVPS-4)
timeFrame: baseline assessment (1st week), assessment 1- midway (5th week), and assessment 2-final (10th week)
measure: Changes of Bruininks-Oseretsky Test of Motor Proficiency - Second Edition (BOT-2)
timeFrame: baseline assessment (1st week), assessment 1- midway (5th week), and assessment 2-final (10th week)
measure: Changes of Pediatric Motivation Questionnaire (PMQ) and Satisfaction Questionnaire for the caregiver (SQ)
timeFrame: baseline assessment (1st week), assessment 1- midway (5th week), and assessment 2-final (10th week)
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Taipei
country: Taiwan
facility: National Taiwan University, Department of Occupational Therapy
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