Clinical Interventions of Social Humanoid Robots in the Treatment of a Set of High- and Low-Functioning Autistic Iranian Twins

Alireza Taheri, Ali Meghdari, Minoo Alemi, Hamidreza Pouretemad
2017 Scientia Iranica. International Journal of Science and Technology  
In this paper, the robot-assisted interventions for a pair of fraternal twins with autism, of whom one was high-functioning and the other low-functioning, are presented. Since many genetic and environmental factors were the same for both participants, the e ects of individual and group robotic games on these two children with high-and lowfunctioning autism were compared. The results indicated improvement in joint attention skills for both subjects. It was further observed that robot group games
more » ... had the potential to improve social skills in the subject with high-functioning autism and to lower the amount of stereotyped and detrimental behaviors in the participant with low-functioning autism. The communication of both participants with each other improved, and their mother claimed she observed her children playing a meaningful game together at home for the rst time since their birth.
doi:10.24200/sci.2017.4337 fatcat:5kyccn7nmnf2pgei7n7vcpqb3e