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Digital Game Therapeutic for Children With Autism

This study is testing a mobile app called GuessWhat, a charades-style game, to see if it can help children with autism improve their social skills. GuessWhat is a free app for phones that parents and children play together. You might be able to join if you are a parent over 18 with a child aged 3 to 12 who has a professional diagnosis of autism. The main goal is to see if children's social skills, as reported by parents using a specific questionnaire (Vineland Adaptive Behavior Scales 3rd Edition), improve after 8 weeks of using the app. The study plans to include 1000 participants.

Study design
This study uses a crossover, waitlist control design and aims to enroll 1000 participants.
What's involved
Participants will download the GuessWhat app on their personal phone and play it with their child 3 times per week for 8 weeks. Parents will complete two questionnaires at the start and up to one week after the 8-week period.
Compensation
Not stated in the trial record.
Follow-up
Participants will be assessed at baseline and again at week 8.

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NCT06058104

Evaluating Efficacy of a Digital Game Therapeutic for Children With Autism

Not Yet Recruiting
NAAges 3–12InterventionalTreatment
Stanford University
~1,000 participants
Updated 2025-05-15 on ClinicalTrials.gov
What's tested:Charades based mobile digital therapeutic

At a glance

Recruiting sites
0 of 1 listed site is recruiting right now
RecruitingSuspended, closed, or not yet open
What they're measuring
Change in parent reported socialization based on the Vineland Adaptive Behavior Scales 3rd Edition (VABS-3) Parent/Caregiver Socialization Subscale, from baseline to week 8
Measured over Baseline (Week 0), Week 8

Conditions

Autism
Autism Spectrum Disorder

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Where you'd take part

This study runs at 1 site. They're the same protocol — you choose where, and that choice sets who your contact draft is addressed to.

  • Stanford University

    Stanford, Californiano site contact published

Sites open and close at different times, so the status above is per site — it can differ from the study's overall status.

Study leadership

  • Dennis P Wall, PhD · PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR · Stanford University

Who to contact

Kaiti Dunlap, MRes
[email protected]
650-497-9214
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What this trial measures

  • Change in parent reported socialization based on the Vineland Adaptive Behavior Scales 3rd Edition (VABS-3) Parent/Caregiver Socialization Subscale, from baseline to week 8Baseline (Week 0), Week 8

    Vineland Adaptive Behavior Scales, 3rd edition (VABS-3) Socialization subscale of the Parent/Caregiver Comprehensive form will be administered online to the parents. Scores from the socialization domain of the VABS-III reflects one's functioning in social situations. The socialization subscale is up to 112 items depending on age and development, where raw scores are converted to Intellectual Quotient-type standard scores--v-scale scores (M=15, SD=3) where scores range from 1 to 24, and factor in age equivalents, growth scale values, and higher scores indicate better adaptive functioning.