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Neha U Keshav1, Kevin Vogt-Lowell2, Arshya Vahabzadeh3,4
1Brain Power, 1 Broadway, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA. neha@brain-power.com.
Children (Basel, Switzerland)
|May 31, 2019
Summary
This study shows that Empowered Brain, an augmented reality tool, can help identify attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) symptoms in students with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Game performance correlated with ADHD symptom severity, suggesting technology
Area of Science:
- Neuroscience and Psychology
- Educational Technology
- Digital Health
Background:
- Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) frequently co-occurs with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), impacting academic, social, and behavioral outcomes in school children.
- The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is increasingly focused on real-world data from digital sources, with emerging reimbursement codes for digital monitoring, indicating growing acceptance of technology in clinical care and research.
- Empowered Brain is an augmented reality (AR) and artificial intelligence (AI) tool designed to aid social-emotional communication for students with ASD.
Purpose of the Study:
- To investigate the correlation between student performance within the Empowered Brain AR/AI application and validated clinical measures of ADHD symptoms.
- To assess the feasibility and potential of using digital tools like Empowered Brain for identifying and characterizing ADHD symptoms in students with ASD.
Main Methods:
- Seven high school students diagnosed with ASD participated in the study.
- ADHD symptom severity was assessed using gold-standard clinical tools: Aberrant Behavioral Checklist (ABC), Social Responsiveness Scale 2 (SRS-2), and Teacher Report Form (TRF).
- Students used Empowered Brain for one week, and their in-game performance (points and stars) was correlated with the hyperactivity subscale of the ABC (ABC-H) and the ADHD subscale of the TRF.
Main Results:
- All seven students successfully used Empowered Brain, completing an average of 4.6 sessions per student.
- Student in-game performance showed a highly significant correlation with ABC-H scores (p = 0.0013 for both points and stars).
- In-game performance also demonstrated a significant correlation with TRF ADHD scores (p = 0.012 for both points and stars).
Conclusions:
- Empowered Brain's in-game performance is a valid correlate of ADHD symptom severity in students with ASD.
- This technology shows promise for novel methods of identifying and characterizing ADHD symptoms in student populations.
- Larger, more diverse samples are needed to validate these findings and explore broader applications in conditions with inattention, impulsivity, and hyperactivity.
Keywords:
ADHDASDGoogle Glassartificial intelligenceassistive technologyattentionaugmented realityautismdigital phenotypinghyperactivityserious gamessocial-emotional learningspecial educationMore Related Videos
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