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ASSOCIATED CURRENT STUDIES
Facial
Recognition Intervention Therapy Study
Dr. Suzy
Scherf, PhD, Carnegie Mellon University
Pennsylvania Department of Health
Children with autism
often have difficulty remembering people by their face as well as feel
uncomfortable and anxious when looking at people's faces. The goal
of this project is to help adolescents with autism spectrum disorders,
between the ages of 10 and 15, improve their ability to remember and
recognize faces without making them uncomfortable or anxious.
This study involves
several visits over the course of a year using functional magnetic
resonance imaging (fMRI), cognitive testing and visual training on a
computer. Randomly selected individual entered into the
intervention portion of this program will be given a laptop computer to
take home with them and complete intervention training. This will
involve training your child to recognize a group of objects they have
never seen before, called Greebles, over several weeks.
If your child is not
assigned to the intervention group and our results suggest the
intervention was helpful, we will make the training software available
to all who are interested.
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