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A Multidisciplinary Telerehabilitation Approach for Supporting Social Interaction in Autism Spectrum Disorder Families: An Italian Digital Platform in Response to COVID-19

Due to its complexity and high variability in symptomology, autism spectrum disorder (ASD) requires a coordinated and multidisciplinary intervention to better support the different programs over time and to promote social interactions in all contexts of life. Telemedicine can offer a valuable contri...

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Autores principales: Vallefuoco, Ersilia, Purpura, Giulia, Gison, Giovanna, Bonifacio, Andrea, Tagliabue, Luca, Broggi, Fiorenza, Scuccimarra, Goffredo, Pepino, Alessandro, Nacinovich, Renata
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8615374/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34827403
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/brainsci11111404
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author Vallefuoco, Ersilia
Purpura, Giulia
Gison, Giovanna
Bonifacio, Andrea
Tagliabue, Luca
Broggi, Fiorenza
Scuccimarra, Goffredo
Pepino, Alessandro
Nacinovich, Renata
author_facet Vallefuoco, Ersilia
Purpura, Giulia
Gison, Giovanna
Bonifacio, Andrea
Tagliabue, Luca
Broggi, Fiorenza
Scuccimarra, Goffredo
Pepino, Alessandro
Nacinovich, Renata
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description Due to its complexity and high variability in symptomology, autism spectrum disorder (ASD) requires a coordinated and multidisciplinary intervention to better support the different programs over time and to promote social interactions in all contexts of life. Telemedicine can offer a valuable contribution in this regard, providing low-cost and portable applications. In this paper, we presented an Italian project, SUPER, which aimed to foster collaboration and information sharing between ASD families, health services, and schools. SUPER provided a digital platform with several tools that were useful both to enhance general and specific ASD knowledge and to promote personalized programs for children with ASD. We conducted a preliminary user test for the platform with 30 participants (18 therapists and 12 parents of children with ASD) using the system usability scale (SUS). The total mean SUS score (89.2) showed that SUPER is an excellent, usable system. Moreover, we extracted the usability and learnability mean components from the SUS scores, which were 96.1 and 61.7, respectively. Our preliminary results indicate that SUPER is a very user-friendly application and its innovative telemedicine approach could be ahelpful communication and collaboration tool among the different contexts of care for children with ASD.
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spelling pubmed-86153742021-11-26 A Multidisciplinary Telerehabilitation Approach for Supporting Social Interaction in Autism Spectrum Disorder Families: An Italian Digital Platform in Response to COVID-19 Vallefuoco, Ersilia Purpura, Giulia Gison, Giovanna Bonifacio, Andrea Tagliabue, Luca Broggi, Fiorenza Scuccimarra, Goffredo Pepino, Alessandro Nacinovich, Renata Brain Sci Article Due to its complexity and high variability in symptomology, autism spectrum disorder (ASD) requires a coordinated and multidisciplinary intervention to better support the different programs over time and to promote social interactions in all contexts of life. Telemedicine can offer a valuable contribution in this regard, providing low-cost and portable applications. In this paper, we presented an Italian project, SUPER, which aimed to foster collaboration and information sharing between ASD families, health services, and schools. SUPER provided a digital platform with several tools that were useful both to enhance general and specific ASD knowledge and to promote personalized programs for children with ASD. We conducted a preliminary user test for the platform with 30 participants (18 therapists and 12 parents of children with ASD) using the system usability scale (SUS). The total mean SUS score (89.2) showed that SUPER is an excellent, usable system. Moreover, we extracted the usability and learnability mean components from the SUS scores, which were 96.1 and 61.7, respectively. Our preliminary results indicate that SUPER is a very user-friendly application and its innovative telemedicine approach could be ahelpful communication and collaboration tool among the different contexts of care for children with ASD. MDPI 2021-10-25 /pmc/articles/PMC8615374/ /pubmed/34827403 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/brainsci11111404 Text en © 2021 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Vallefuoco, Ersilia
Purpura, Giulia
Gison, Giovanna
Bonifacio, Andrea
Tagliabue, Luca
Broggi, Fiorenza
Scuccimarra, Goffredo
Pepino, Alessandro
Nacinovich, Renata
A Multidisciplinary Telerehabilitation Approach for Supporting Social Interaction in Autism Spectrum Disorder Families: An Italian Digital Platform in Response to COVID-19
title A Multidisciplinary Telerehabilitation Approach for Supporting Social Interaction in Autism Spectrum Disorder Families: An Italian Digital Platform in Response to COVID-19
title_full A Multidisciplinary Telerehabilitation Approach for Supporting Social Interaction in Autism Spectrum Disorder Families: An Italian Digital Platform in Response to COVID-19
title_fullStr A Multidisciplinary Telerehabilitation Approach for Supporting Social Interaction in Autism Spectrum Disorder Families: An Italian Digital Platform in Response to COVID-19
title_full_unstemmed A Multidisciplinary Telerehabilitation Approach for Supporting Social Interaction in Autism Spectrum Disorder Families: An Italian Digital Platform in Response to COVID-19
title_short A Multidisciplinary Telerehabilitation Approach for Supporting Social Interaction in Autism Spectrum Disorder Families: An Italian Digital Platform in Response to COVID-19
title_sort multidisciplinary telerehabilitation approach for supporting social interaction in autism spectrum disorder families: an italian digital platform in response to covid-19
topic Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8615374/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34827403
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/brainsci11111404
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