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Investigating Social Competence in Youth With Autism

NCT03368001 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 318

Last updated 2024-10-08

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Summary

Our treatment, SENSE Theatre, combines several well-documented, effective behavioral strategies and theatre techniques. The proposed project will extend previous findings showing improving improvement in memory for faces. The multisite randomized control trial will include a large sample of 240 children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) randomly assigned to the experimental (SENSE Theatre) or an active control condition (Tackling Teenage Together).

Conditions

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

SENSE Theatre

SENSE Theatre is a peer-mediated, theatre-based intervention targeting social competence in youth with autism spectrum disorder. The 40 hour intervention is comprised of 10 sessions in which trained typically peers are paired with children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD).

BEHAVIORAL

Tackling Teenage Together

The Tackling Teenage Together is a psychosocial and sexual education program developed for youth with ASD. It is comprised of 10 sessions.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Vanderbilt University Medical Center

    lead OTHER

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
8 Years
Max Age
16 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2017-11-22
Primary Completion
2022-08-15
Completion
2023-01-03

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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Diseases

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