Tests a mobile game for social skills in children with autism
Tests a free app of charades and emotion games for children with autism.
Plain-language title generated from the registry record
Registry title: Evaluating Efficacy of a Digital Game Therapeutic for Children With Autism
Key facts
- Where
- Stanford, United StatesSee the site
Could this be for you?
Answer for yourself. This is not a decision: only the study team can say whether you can take part.
- Are you between 3 and 12 years old?
Source: NCT06058104, who can take part
Where in United States
- Stanford UniversityStanford, United StatesNo longer taking part
Questions to ask the study team
- How often do I need to come in, and for how long each time?
- Are travel costs paid?
- Can I keep my own doctor?
- What happens if I want to stop?
Trial details
- Who runs it
- Stanford University
- Trial code
- NCT06058104
- Record updated
- 15 May 2025
- Original description
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.Read full original descriptionShow less
Evaluating Efficacy of a Digital Game Based Therapeutic for Improving Socialization Outcomes in Autistic Children, A Randomized Clinical Trial.
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.
Inclusion: 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.
Exclusion: Child has additional psychiatric or neurologic diagnoses including genetic syndromes or epilepsy in addition to autism; 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.