Clinical Trial: More and Less Social Comprehension

Study Status: RECRUITING
Recruit Status: RECRUITING
Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL



Official Title: More and Less Social Comprehension: Child and Text Factors for Autistic Children

Brief Summary:

The goal of this early Phase 1 clinical trial is to assess if the social content of a story impacts autistic children's listening comprehension of stories.
The main questions this study aims to answer are:

  • Does removing social content from a story improve listening comprehension in autistic children?
  • Does listening comprehension of more social versus less social stories differentially predict performance on a standardized reading comprehension measure?

Participants will listen to more social and less social stories while viewing accompanying pictures and answer comprehension questions about the stories and complete a standardized assessment of reading comprehension.
In addition, participants complete measures of their nonverbal cognition, hearing status, autism severity, language abilities, and social communication abilities to help characterize individual differences in participants.