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Evaluating Efficacy of a Digital Game Therapeutic for Children With Autism

NCT06058104 · Status: NOT_YET_RECRUITING · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 1000

Last updated 2025-05-15

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

The following study aims to assess the efficacy of the game-based digital therapeutic, GuessWhat, in improving adaptive socialization skills in children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). GuessWhat is a mobile application (available for free for iOS and Android) which contains a suite of games: pro-social charades, emotion guessing, and quiz. Participant families will use their personal smartphones to download the app and play it with their child according to a predetermined regimen.

Conditions

Interventions

DEVICE

Charades based mobile digital therapeutic

The mobile app is a charades style game and app that engages parent and child in fluid social interaction where the parent must guess what the child is acting out based on the prompt shown on the phone screen. Participants will use their own personal phone to download the study app. Parents are asked to play with their child 15 minutes 3-4 times per week for 8 weeks.

Sponsors & Collaborators

Principal Investigators

  • Dennis P Wall, PhD · Stanford University

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
SINGLE
Model
CROSSOVER

Eligibility

Min Age
3 Years
Max Age
12 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2025-10-31
Primary Completion
2026-10-31
Completion
2026-12-31

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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