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Avatar assistant : improving social skills in students with an ASD through a computer-based intervention . This study assessed the efficacy of FaceSay , a computer-based social skills training program for children with Autism Spectrum Disorders ( ASD ) . This randomized controlled study ( N = 49 ) indicates that providing children with low-functioning autism ( LFA ) and high functioning autism ( HFA ) opportunities to practice attending to eye gaze , discriminating facial expressions and recognizing faces and emotions in FaceSay 's structured environment with interactive , realistic avatar assistants improved their social skills abilities . The children with LFA demonstrated improvements in two areas of the intervention : emotion recognition and social interactions . The children with HFA demonstrated improvements in all three areas : facial recognition , emotion recognition , and social interactions . These findings , particularly the measured improvements to social interactions in a natural environment , are encouraging .
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Intervention_Educational
computer-based intervention
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Intervention_Educational
computer-based social skills training program
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Outcome_Mental
social skills
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Outcome_Other
efficacy
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Outcome_Mental
social skills
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Participant_Condition
students with an ASD