Home-Based Parent-Child Intervention to Enhance Executive Function

摘要 Koronis Biomedical Technologies(KBT)及其合作者提议开发并完全验证一种低成本、 适合幼儿发展的基于智能手机的认知干预。建议数 干预措施旨在解决有年幼子女的家庭在行政管理方面存在缺陷的需求 功能(EF)，与自我控制相关的一组关键的认知过程。新兴的评估工具 为年仅两岁的儿童提供基于科学的、规范的认知评估。的父母 被确认为认知缺陷的幼儿对负担得起的认知发展的需求尚未得到满足 干预选项。拟议的研究试图通过建立居家认知来解决这一需求 培训系统，为家长提供一系列简短、易于遵循、协作的认知 他们将与孩子分享培训活动。该系统将采用一种新的两代培训方式 将父母参与视为干预过程的关键组成部分的模式。在此模型中，一个 引人入胜的、面向家长的智能手机应用程序将提供个性化的日常培训活动，包括 既有传统的动手活动，也有协作性的、以家长为导向、面向儿童的视频游戏。建房 在一个成功的第一阶段研究中，该系统显示了良好的有效性和可用性，该方法支持 学习和建立亲子之间牢固的个人关系的多种途径，同时 在以目标为导向的追求中，培训对成功至关重要的EF技能。

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.