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Executive Function Intervention for Children With ASD Combining a Digital App and Parent Coaching

NCT07376356 · Status: NOT_YET_RECRUITING · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 40

Last updated 2026-01-30

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Summary

The purpose of this randomized controlled study is to develop and evaluate a digital cognitive control intervention that integrates a digital application-based child training program with an online parent coaching program for early school-aged children aged 5-8 with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and their caregivers in South Korea. This intervention is designed to enhance clinical applicability, sustainability, and generalization to daily life of executive skills through active parental involvement. This study has three primary aims: (1) to examine the feasibility, acceptability, and implementation fidelity of the integrated child-parent digital intervention, (2) to investigate the effects of the intervention on children's cognitive control and executive function using behavioral assessments and neurophysiological measures (e.g., EEG), as well as on parents' use of cognitive control-supportive strategies in daily contexts, and (3) to assess whether intervention related changes generalize to real-world functioning, including children's adaptive behavior, academic readiness, and social functioning, as reported by parents, and whether these effects are maintained over time.

Conditions

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

ChuckChuck Step

Our intervention will consist of a daily(Mon-Fri), six-week, digital application based intervention (15 minutes per day) for children and six-week telehealth based group intervention (60 minutes per week) to support both children with ASD (5- to 8-year-olds) and their parents regarding executive function hardships. This program provides training for inhibition, working memory, planning and organizing, cognitive flexibility, and emotion regulation. Children will practice these aspects of executive function while playing child-friendly games with the storyline being based on everyday school related themes. Games will consist of go-nogo tasks, following arrows, memory games etc. Parents will learn about these aspects of executive function through real-time telehealth and will be provided with strategies to further promote growth of executive function abilities in their children. The parent mediated intervention curriculum moves beyond didactic instruction by combining psychoeducation with

BEHAVIORAL

ChuckChuck Step (Shortened Parent Coaching)

Children in the waitlist control group will receive the same intervention as the intervention group after the waitlist period. Parents in the waitlist control group will receive an abbreviated version(three-week) of the parent mediated intervention with the same contents as the intervention group.

Sponsors & Collaborators

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

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

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2026-02-28
Primary Completion
2026-08-31
Completion
2027-08-31

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