Clinical trial NCT06342583: Advanced Social Relations Training
Official title: Advanced Social Relations Training for Children and Young People With Autism Spectrum Disorder
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: RECRUITING
Phase: NA
Conditions: Autism
Autism Spectrum Disorder
Keywords: autism
children
social relation
awareness on social media
communication
social stories
Lead sponsor: Istituto per la Ricerca e l'Innovazione Biomedica
Sponsor class: OTHER
Collaborators: name: Messina, Italy
First posted: 2024-04-02
Enrollment: 30
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 9
Maximum age (years): 12
Standard ages: CHILD
Accepts healthy volunteers: no
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Primary purpose: TREATMENT

Brief summary: 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.


Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* diagnosis of autism
* intelligence quotient ≥ 80

Exclusion Criteria:

* presence of other medical disorders

Primary outcomes:
measure: Vineland-II (Vineland Adaptive Behavior Scales-II - Survey Intervention Form)
timeFrame: the administration of the Vineland-II takes approximately 20-60 minutes
measure: Eye contact
timeFrame: the administration of the test takes approximately 10 minutes
measure: Smile in relation to group members' expressions
timeFrame: the administration of the test takes approximately 10 minutes
measure: Greeting
timeFrame: the administration of the test takes approximately 10 minutes
measure: Asking a question
timeFrame: the administration of the test takes approximately 10 minutes
measure: Proposing an idea or activity to be carried out
timeFrame: the administration of the test takes approximately 10 minutes
measure: Answering a question
timeFrame: the administration of the test takes approximately 10 minutes
measure: Taking verbal initiative
timeFrame: the administration of the test takes approximately 10 minutes
measure: Approval/sharing gestures
timeFrame: the administration of the test takes approximately 10 minutes
Secondary outcomes:
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Messina
country: Italy
facility: Institute for Biomedical Research and Innovation (IRIB) - National Research Council (CNR)
Study officials:
affiliation: Istituto per la Ricerca e l'Innovazione Biomedica
name: Flavia Marino
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
References:
citation: ALMUMEN, H., & ALMUHAREB, K. (n.d.). Intervento di storia sociale arricchita dalla tecnologia: coinvolgere i bambini con disturbi dello spettro autistico nella comunicazione sociale. International Journal of Early Childhood Special Education, 12(1), 96-119. https://doi.org/10.20489/intjecse.726397
citation: Camilleri LJ, Maras K, Brosnan M. The impact of using digitally-mediated social stories on the perceived competence and attitudes of parents and practitioners supporting children with autism. PLoS One. 2022 Jan 18;17(1):e0262598. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0262598. eCollection 2022.