RCT examining the effect of treatment intensity for a psychosocial treatment for high-functioning children with ASD

Lopata, Christopher; Thomeer, Marcus L.; Lipinski, Alanna M.; Donnelly, James P.; Nelson, Andrew T.; Smith, R. A.; Booth, Adam J.; Rodgers, Jonathan D.; Volker, Martin A.

doi:10.1016/j.rasd.2015.06.002

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“…These studies utilized a variety of intervention approaches, including a comprehensive school-based intervention (Lopata et al, 2012, 2013), a comprehensive psychosocial treatment (Lopata, Thomeer, et al, 2015), a modified computerized dynamic facial emotion training tool, the MiX (Russo-Ponsaran et al, 2016), a social adjustment enhancement intervention (Solomon et al, 2004), and a group-based Social Competence Intervention (Schmidt et al, 2011; Stichter et al, 2010). Of the seven studies, three utilized a control group design (Lopata, Thomeer, et al, 2015; Russo-Ponsaran et al, 2016; Solomon et al, 2004). In addition to these studies that reported statistically significant changes, Baghdadli and colleagues (2013) found that children exhibited fewer errors for recognition of anger (Adult Faces only) following treatment.…”

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Measuring change in facial emotion recognition in individuals with autism spectrum disorder: A systematic review

Wieckowski

Flynn

Richey

et al. 2020

Autism

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Children and adults with autism spectrum disorder are less accurate in facial emotion recognition, which is thought to contribute to impairment in social functioning. Although many interventions have been developed to improve facial emotion recognition, there is no consensus on how to best measure facial emotion recognition in people with autism spectrum disorder. This lack of agreement has led to wide variability in how facial emotion recognition is measured and, subsequently, inconsistent findings related to impact of intervention targeting facial emotion recognition impairment. The purpose of this review is to synthesize the extant research on measurement of facial emotion recognition in the context of treatment. We conducted an electronic database search to identify relevant, peer-reviewed articles published between January 1998 and November 2019 to identify studies evaluating change in facial emotion recognition in autism spectrum disorder. Sixty-five studies met inclusion criteria, utilizing a total of 36 different assessment measures for facial emotion recognition in individuals with autism spectrum disorder. Only six of the measures were used in multiple studies conducted by different investigative teams. The outcomes of the studies are reported and summarized with the goal of informing future research. Lay Abstract Children and adults with autism spectrum disorder show difficulty recognizing facial emotions in others, which makes social interaction challenging. While there are many treatments developed to improve facial emotion recognition, there is no agreement on the best way to measure such abilities in individuals with autism spectrum disorder. The purpose of this review is to examine studies that were published between January 1998 and November 2019 and have measured change in facial emotion recognition to evaluate the effectiveness of different treatments. Our search yielded 65 studies, and within these studies, 36 different measures were used to evaluate facial emotion recognition in individuals with autism spectrum disorder. Only six of these measures, however, were used in different studies and by different investigators. In this review, we summarize the different measures and outcomes of the studies, in order to identify promising assessment tools and inform future research.

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Measuring change in facial emotion recognition in individuals with autism spectrum disorder: A systematic review

Wieckowski

Flynn

Richey

et al. 2020

Autism

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“…This study used a different measure for facial emotion recognition testing (CAM-C) and it demonstrated treatment sensitivity. This is a promising development as questions have been raised about the ability of emotion recognition tests to detect treatment gains associated with psychosocial treatments (Lopata et al, 2015). Although the facial emotion recognition results were promising and reflected significant improvement in the children’s skills, they were based on an average gain of approximately two points.…”

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Open-trial pilot study of a comprehensive outpatient psychosocial treatment for children with high-functioning autism spectrum disorder

Lopata

Lipinski

Thomeer

et al. 2016

Autism

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This study examined the feasibility and initial outcomes of a comprehensive outpatient psychosocial treatment (MAXout) for children aged 7-12 years with high-functioning autism spectrum disorder. The 18-week treatment, two 90-minute sessions per week, included instruction and therapeutic activities targeting social/social communication skills, facial emotion recognition, non-literal language skills, and interest expansion. A behavioral system was implemented to reduce autism spectrum disorder symptoms and problem behaviors and increase skills acquisition and maintenance. Feasibility was supported via high levels of treatment fidelity and parent, child, and staff satisfaction. Significant post-treatment improvements were found for the children's non-literal language skills and facial emotion recognition skills, and parent and staff clinician ratings of targeted social/social communication skills, broad social skills, autism spectrum disorder symptoms, and problem behaviors. Results suggested that MAXout was feasible and may yield positive outcomes for children with high-functioning autism spectrum disorder.

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Psychometric Characteristics of the DANVA-2 in High-Functioning Children with ASD

Booth

Rodgers

Volker

et al. 2019

J Autism Dev Disord

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RCT examining the effect of treatment intensity for a psychosocial treatment for high-functioning children with ASD

Cited by 5 publications

References 29 publications

Measuring change in facial emotion recognition in individuals with autism spectrum disorder: A systematic review

Measuring change in facial emotion recognition in individuals with autism spectrum disorder: A systematic review

Open-trial pilot study of a comprehensive outpatient psychosocial treatment for children with high-functioning autism spectrum disorder

Psychometric Characteristics of the DANVA-2 in High-Functioning Children with ASD

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