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More and Less Social Comprehension
Sponsor: University of Kansas Medical Center
Summary
The goal of this early Phase 1 clinical trial is to assess if the social content of a story impacts autistic children's listening comprehension of stories. The main questions this study aims to answer are: * Does removing social content from a story improve listening comprehension in autistic children? * Does listening comprehension of more social versus less social stories differentially predict performance on a standardized reading comprehension measure? Participants will listen to more social and less social stories while viewing accompanying pictures and answer comprehension questions about the stories and complete a standardized assessment of reading comprehension. In addition, participants complete measures of their nonverbal cognition, hearing status, autism severity, language abilities, and social communication abilities to help characterize individual differences in participants.
Official title: More and Less Social Comprehension: Child and Text Factors for Autistic Children
Key Details
Gender
All
Age Range
9 Years - 12 Years
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Enrollment
50
Start Date
2023-07-10
Completion Date
2025-12
Last Updated
2025-04-04
Healthy Volunteers
No
Conditions
Interventions
More Social Stories
Children listen to four stories while looking at accompanying images that contain more social information (e.g., characters referencing, dialogue, mental and emotional state words, and narrativity) as measured by a text analysis.
Less Social Stories
Children listen to four stories while looking at accompanying images that contain less social information (e.g., characters referencing, dialogue, mental and emotional state words, and narrativity) as measured by a text analysis.
Locations (1)
University of Kansas Comprehension and Language Learning Lab
Lawrence, Kansas, United States