  Robot Assisted Therapy is a new paradigm in many therapies such as the
therapy of children with autism spectrum disorder. In this paper we present the
use of a parrot-like robot as an assistive tool in turn taking therapy. The
therapy is designed in the form of a card game between a child with autism and
a therapist or the robot. The intervention was implemented in a single subject
study format and the effect sizes for different turn taking variables are
calculated. The results show that the child robot interaction had larger effect
size than the child trainer effect size in most of the turn taking variables.
Furthermore the therapist point of view on the proposed Robot Assisted Therapy
is evaluated using a questionnaire. The therapist believes that the robot is
appealing to children which may ease the therapy process. The therapist
suggested to add other functionalities and games to let children with autism to
learn more turn taking tasks and better generalize the learned tasks
