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Performance Of Children With Autism In Parent-Administered Cognitive And Language Exercises

Rita Dunn, Jonah Elgart, Lisa Lokshina, Alexander Faisman, Edward Khokhlovich, Yuriy Gankin, Andrey Vyshedskiy
doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/146449
Rita Dunn
2ImagiRation LLC, Boston, MA, USA
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Jonah Elgart
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Lisa Lokshina
2ImagiRation LLC, Boston, MA, USA
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Alexander Faisman
3IBM TJ Watson Research Center, New York, USA
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Edward Khokhlovich
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Yuriy Gankin
4EPAM Systems, Newtown, PA, USA
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Andrey Vyshedskiy
1Boston University, Boston, USA
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Abstract

There is a broad scientific consensus that early and intensive therapy has the greatest chance of positive impact on an individual with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). However, the availability, quality, and general funding for early intervention programs is often lacking, leaving newly diagnosed children without adequate and sufficient therapy during the most critical early period of their development. Parent-administered iPad-assisted therapy has the potential to reduce the gap between the amount of therapy recommended for children with ASD and the amount they receive. However it is unclear how ASD severity and age influence a child’s ability to engage with and learn from computerized cognitive exercises. In this manuscript, we describe data from a tablet-based therapeutic application administered by parents to 1,514 young children with ASD over the course of four to twelve months. We report that older children and children with milder forms of ASD performed better and progressed faster in cognitive and language exercises. However, most children were able to engage with and learn from exercises independent of their age or ASD severity. This data confirm that tablet-based cognitive and language exercises can be successfully administered by parents to children as young as two years of age over the course of many months independent of ASD severity.

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Performance Of Children With Autism In Parent-Administered Cognitive And Language Exercises
Rita Dunn, Jonah Elgart, Lisa Lokshina, Alexander Faisman, Edward Khokhlovich, Yuriy Gankin, Andrey Vyshedskiy
bioRxiv 146449; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/146449
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Performance Of Children With Autism In Parent-Administered Cognitive And Language Exercises
Rita Dunn, Jonah Elgart, Lisa Lokshina, Alexander Faisman, Edward Khokhlovich, Yuriy Gankin, Andrey Vyshedskiy
bioRxiv 146449; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/146449

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