Home-Based Parent-Child Intervention to Enhance Executive Function

摘要 Koronis Biomedical Technologies（KBT）及其合作者建议开发并充分验证一种低成本， 适合儿童发展的智能手机认知干预。拟议 干预措施旨在解决有幼儿的家庭的需要，这些家庭被确定为缺乏执行能力。 功能（EF），一组与自我控制相关的关键认知过程。新出现的评估工具 为小至两岁的儿童提供基于科学的规范认知评估。家长 认知缺陷的幼儿对负担得起的认知发展的需求未得到满足 干预选项。拟议的研究旨在通过建立一个家庭认知来解决这一需求 一个培训系统，为家长提供一个模块化的一系列简短，易于遵循，协作认知 他们将与孩子分享的培训活动。该系统将采用一种新颖的两代培训 该模式将父母参与视为干预过程的关键组成部分。在这个模型中， 一款面向家长的智能手机应用程序将提供个性化的日常训练活动，包括 既有传统的动手活动，也有合作的、家长指导的、面向儿童的视频游戏。建筑 在成功的第一阶段研究表明，该系统具有良好的有效性和可用性，这种方法支持 学习和建立父母和孩子之间牢固的个人关系的多种途径， 培训EF技能，这对以目标为导向的追求取得成功至关重要。

Abstract Koronis Biomedical Technologies (KBT) and its collaborators propose to develop and fully validate a low-cost, developmentally appropriate, smartphone-based cognitive intervention for young children. The proposed intervention seeks to address the needs of families with young children identified with deficits in Executive Function (EF), a critical set of cognitive processes associated with self-control. Emerging assessment tools provide science-based, normed cognitive assessments for children as young as two years old. Parents of young children identified with cognitive deficits have an unmet need for an affordable cognitive development intervention option. The proposed research seeks to address this need by building an in-home cognition training system that provides parents with a modular series of short, easy-to-follow, collaborative cognitive training activities they will share with their child. The system will employ a novel two-generational training model that views parental involvement as a critical component of the intervention process. In this model, an engaging, parent-facing smartphone application will deliver personalized daily training activities consisting of both traditional hands-on activities, as well as collaborative, parent-directed, child-facing video games. Building on a successful Phase I study showing promising validity and usability of the system, this approach supports multiple pathways for learning and building strong personal relationships between parent and child, while training the EF skills critical to success in goal-oriented pursuits.