Robot-mediated interventions for teaching children with ASD: a new intraverbal skill
Robot-mediated interventions for teaching children with ASD: a new intraverbal skill
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以机器人为媒介的自闭症儿童教学干预措施：一种新的语言技能
DOI：
10.1080/10400435.2021.1930284
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发表时间：
2021
影响因子：
1.8
通讯作者：
Rooney, Faith
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作者：
Korneder, Jessica;Louie, Wing-Yue Geoffrey;Pawluk, Cristyn M.;Abbas, Ibrahim;Brys, Molly;Rooney, Faith
社交辅助机器人（SAR）有可能通过支持临床医生增加向个人提供的学习机会来影响自闭症谱系障碍（ASD）的治疗。最近关于机器人介导的干预（RMI）交付的研究主要解决了自闭症谱系障碍（ASD）中的社会缺陷，并取得了积极的成果。目前的文献很少关注教授自闭症谱系障碍儿童个人事先不知道的技能。此外，目前尚不清楚如何将机器人集成到临床环境中，因为当前的 RMI 不遵守应用行为分析 (ABA) 协议。在这项工作中，我们研究了是否可以利用 RMI 来教自闭症谱系障碍儿童一种他们在基线时无法表现出的全新语言和沟通技能。我们利用标准 ABA 评估工具首先确定教授自闭症儿童的适当技能。然后，我们开发、实施和评估了 RMI 干预措施，该干预措施遵循 ABA 中的标准临床操作程序，并针对参与者的独特技能缺陷。我们研究了 RMI 培训对 wh 问答教学的影响。所有课程均由 SAR 作为主要治疗师，使用基于证据的 ABA 人类教学协议进行。所有参与者都在七次会议内掌握了 wh 问题的回答技能，这符合他们的典型习得率。
Socially assistive robots (SAR) have the potential to impact therapies for Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) by supporting clinicians in increasing learning opportunities presented to individuals. Recent research on robot-mediated intervention (RMI) delivery has predominantly addressed social deficits in ASD with positive outcomes. Current literature has minimal focus on teaching children with ASD a skill not known apriori by the individual. Furthermore, it is unclear how to integrate robots in clinical settings because current RMIs do not adhere to Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) protocols. In this work, we investigated whether an RMI could be utilized to teach children with ASD a completely new language and communication skill they could not exhibit at baseline. We utilized a standard ABA assessment tool to first identify appropriate skills to teach children with ASD. We then developed, implemented, and evaluated an RMI intervention that followed standard clinical operating procedures in ABA and targets participants’ unique skill deficits. We examined the effects of the RMI training on teaching wh-question answering. All sessions were conducted with the SAR as the primary therapist using evidenced-based ABA human teaching protocols. All participants acquired the wh-questions answering skill within seven sessions, which is in line with their typical acquisition rates.