Abstract:
Delays in language development in early childhood are often the first signs prompting parents to seek autism diagnostics. While expressive language is easily observed, assessing receptive language development is more challenging and prone to misjudgment. Robot-assisted autism interventions offer a potential solution.
This article presents the results of long-term use of QTrobot for autism at home by multiple families. The non-experimental setup ensures that the results are ecologically valid. The exploratory analysis indicates that playful interactions with QTrobot for autism enable more accurate assessments of a child’s receptive vocabulary. Additionally, the findings suggest that QTrobot supports autistic children in their receptive language learning.
Reference:
Nazari, Aida, et al. “Receptive Language Development Diagnosis and Tracking in Conversational Interactions with QTrobot for Autism.” Proceedings of the First Workshop on Connecting Multiple Disciplines to AI Techniques in Interaction-centric Autism Research and Diagnosis (ICARD 2023). 2023.