Requirements & procedure
Eligibility
We are looking for children aged between 3 and 11 years old with Typical Development (TD) or diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), who understand at least one of these languages: English, German, French, Italian, Spanish.
A project in three phases
Filling in of questionnaires
Testing Phases
Evaluation & Feedback
We will ask you as the caregivers to fill out two questionnaires. The results will then analysed be the ABCCD research team before you will be contacted again by one of our experimenters. If your child is eligible for the study, the ABCCD research team will be conducting two sets of testings 10-12 months apart, each composed of two to three sessions of about one to two hours.
These sessions include playful gamified activities on computer and tablet specifically developed for children and computer-based parental questionnaires on the child’s language habits and environment and can be lead at school or at home.
The results will then be analysed by the ABCCD research time and, if you wish, you can receive a feedback form for your child.
How to participate?
Registration
You contact us via e-mail or telephone if you are interested in the study and/or if you would like to receive further information.
We will contact you back and send you further information as well as some questionnaires.
Questionnaires
To participate in the study, you fill in the necessary documents and questionnaires we provide (time required: approx. 40min) and send back the consent form to us.
We can also set up a meeting to fill in the questionnaires together.
We will evaluate your application and contact you back (approx. 1 week later at the latest) to inform you whether your child’s profil fits to the study.
YEAR 1 Testings
If your child is eligible and you and your child still accept to participate in the study, we will set up 2 to 3 meetings based on your availabilities.
We will come 2 to 3 times to your place / to your child’s school to run some gamified tasks with your child (time required: approx. 3 hours in total).
YEAR 2 Testings
Approx. 9 months later, we will contact you again for the second testing point. We will set up 2 to 3 new meetings based on your availabilities and send you new questionnaires.
We will come 2 to 3 times to your place or to your child’s school to run some games with your child (time required: approx. 3hrs).
Our study in a nutshell
Activities examples
Come with us and explore the world of Gabi in our interactive app! To test the participants in a motivating and accurate manner, different activities have been developed to be run on tablets and computers, embedded in a playful story. Gabi, a friendly 3D character will guide the participant in his village while completing various games assessing different cognitive and communicative skills.
Gabi outside
Gabi at home
Gabi at school