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Evaluating Efficacy of a Digital Game Therapeutic for Children With Autism

Evaluating Efficacy of a Digital Game Based Therapeutic for Improving Socialization Outcomes in Autistic Children, A Randomized Clinical Trial.

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Last updated 15 May 2025 · Not updated for over 12 months - ask the site whether it is still open

Brief summary (registry, in English)

The following study aims to assess the efficacy of the game-based digital therapeutic, GuessWhat, in improving adaptive socialization skills in children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). GuessWhat is a mobile application (available for free for iOS and Android) which contains a suite of games: pro-social charades, emotion guessing, and quiz. Participant families will use their personal smartphones to download the app and play it with their child according to a predetermined regimen.

Status (registry)
Not yet recruiting
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
1000 (estimated)
First submitted
15 Sept 2023
Start date
Oct 2025
Primary completion date
Oct 2026
Lead sponsor
Stanford University
Diseases
Autism
NCT number
NCT06058104

What you commit to

  • Study type: Interventional
  • Planned participants: 1000
  • From Oct 2025 to the primary completion date, Oct 2026
  • 1 site in 1 country
  • Visits and tests: ask the trial team, the registry does not list them

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Who cannot take part

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Other illness

  • Child has additional psychiatric or neurologic diagnoses including genetic syndromes or epilepsy in addition to autism.

Other

  • Parent is unable to read the app in the offered languages (English, Spanish, Portuguese)
  • Parent does not have an Android or iOS smartphone compatible with GuessWhat App.

Who the study is looking for

  • Parent who is at least 18 years old of child with autism.
  • Child with autism is between 3 and 12 years old at time of baseline data collection.
  • A professional diagnosis of Autism that is able to be confirmed by negative score on a machine learning based algorithm using items from Mobile Autism Risk Assessment and video based classifier or by a copy of diagnostic report.

Age in the registry: 3 years to 12 years · Sex: All · Does not accept healthy volunteers

Full criteria on ClinicalTrials.gov

Sites (1)

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Stanford University
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