SBIR Phase I: Multi-Sensory Therapy Program for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder

SBIR 第一阶段：针对自闭症谱系障碍儿童的多感官治疗计划

• 批准号: 1721330
• 负责人: Andrea Johnson
• 金额: $ 22.5万
• 依托单位: Teaching It Right, LLC
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2017
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2017-06-01 至 2018-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1721330&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: SBIR; Phase; Multi; Sensory; Therapy

This project will develop a multi-sensory therapy program for children diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder by improving eye contact. Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder do not make eye contact readily and eye contact is a key component in progressing social behavior. Current methodologies to assist these children in maximizing their capabilities are out of reach for many, costing families thousands of dollars a month, requiring 25-40 hours per week and offer measureable improvements at less than 47%. This project has shown positive results in preliminary testing and is expected to result in an affordable, practical solution to the challenges children with Autism Spectrum Disorder and their families encounter. As their social skills improve, children with Autism Spectrum Disorder will be able to build and maintain friendships, become more fully engaged in society, prepare them to become self-sustaining adults, and increase their employment opportunities. Additionally, this program can also be expanded to children with other disabilities or children without disabilities, resulting in increased ability to also build and maintain friendships, become more fully engaged in society to prepare them to become self-sustaining adults, and increase their employment opportunities. Potential customers will include parents, school districts, and other professional and nonprofessional caregivers. The high need for this program will create market growth, creating new jobs and generating tax revenue. The goal for this project is to develop a multi-sensory program, developed for smart mobile devices, that improves children with Autism Spectrum Disorder?s social skills so they can function as their typical peers who do not have Autism Spectrum Disorder. This goal is accomplished by developing an interactive program that teaches the social skill, making eye contact with individuals the child does and does not know, by improving sensory integration and regulating the overactive amygdala. Funding would allow for the development of the program to test, measure and quantify sensory integration and eye contact improvement for children with Autism Spectrum Disorder. Analyses will reflect the interpretation requirements of a Pre vs. Post, Intervention versus Control design. All statistical analyses and tests will be conducted using the widely used program Statistical Package for the Social Sciences version 17 or higher and will be verified with Statistical Analysis System when appropriate or marginal findings.

该项目将通过改善眼神交流，为诊断患有自闭症谱系障碍的儿童制定多感官治疗计划。患有自闭症谱系障碍的儿童不会轻易进行目光接触，而目光接触是发展社会行为的关键组成部分。目前帮助这些孩子最大限度发挥能力的方法对于许多人来说是遥不可及的，每个家庭每月要花费数千美元，每周需要 25-40 个小时，并且可测量的改进不到 47%。该项目在初步测试中取得了积极的成果，预计将为患有自闭症谱系障碍的儿童及其家人遇到的挑战提供负担得起的实用解决方案。随着社交技能的提高，患有自闭症谱系障碍的儿童将能够建立和维持友谊，更充分地参与社会，为成为自立的成年人做好准备，并增加就业机会。此外，该计划还可以扩展到患有其他残疾或无残疾的儿童，从而提高建立和维持友谊的能力，更充分地参与社会，为他们成为自力更生的成年人做好准备，并增加他们的就业机会。潜在客户将包括家长、学区以及其他专业和非专业护理人员。对该计划的高度需求将创造市场增长、创造新的就业机会并产生税收。该项目的目标是开发一个专为智能移动设备开发的多感官程序，以提高患有自闭症谱系障碍的儿童的社交技能，使他们能够像没有患有自闭症谱系障碍的典型同龄人一样发挥作用。这个目标是通过开发一个互动程序来实现的，该程序可以教授社交技能，通过改善感觉统合和调节过度活跃的杏仁核，与孩子认识和不认识的人进行目光接触。资金将用于开发测试、测量和量化自闭症谱系障碍儿童感觉统合​​和眼神接触改善的项目。分析将反映前与后、干预与控制设计的解释要求。所有统计分析和测试都将使用广泛使用的社会科学统计软件包版本 17 或更高版本进行，并将在适当或边际发现时使用统计分析系统进行验证。