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Effects of conversational AI-enhanced peer-mediated intervention by peers with intellectual disabilities on
Jinyu Fan1, Jing Zeng2, Huan Li1
1Department of Special Education, Southwest University, Chongqing, China.
Background/Aims:
Children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) often experience conversational difficulties that hinder social interactions and peer relationships. This study examined whether a conversational AI-enhanced peer-mediated intervention delivered by peers with intellectual disabilities (CAI-PMI-ID) yielded superior outcomes in improving conversational skills in children with ASD compared with PMI-ID-only.
Method:
This study employed a multiple-probe across participants design and an alternating treatments design to compare the effects of CAI-PMI-ID and PMI-ID-only. Conversational outcomes included quantitative measures (frequency of appropriate initiations and responses) and qualitative measures (mean length of utterance in morphemes, MLU-M; number of different words, NDW; and total number of words, TNW).
Results:
CAI-PMI-ID produced greater improvements in the frequency of appropriate conversational initiations and responses than PMI-ID-only. It also yielded superior outcomes in lexical diversity and productivity, as reflected in NDW and TNW. The two intervention conditions resulted in limited and variable effects on MLU-M. CAI-PMI-ID facilitated the successful generalization of conversational skills to interact with different peers.
Conclusions/Implications:
These preliminary findings support the feasibility and added value of CAI-PMI-ID for enhancing core conversational behaviors and lexical productivity among children with ASD. Future research should integrate evidence-based syntactic supports to promote MLU-M, leverage multimodal and scenario-based AI in natural settings, strengthen AI-peer collaboration, and improve AI speech recognition to enhance intervention effects.
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