"Cognitus & Moi": a New Cognitive Remediation Tool (COGNITUS)

Hôpital le Vinatier

Status: Terminated

Conditions: Mental Retardation

Treatments: Behavioral: Cognitive remediation program

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02797418

2015-A00858-41

Details and patient eligibility

About

Holders children with intellectual disabilities have great difficulty in adapting to social situations and relationships.Cognitive impairment associated with intellectual disability are important factors to understand their difficulties in processing social information. In the field of recognition of facial emotions in particular, basic cognitive processes such as visuospatial and attentional functions, are heavily involved.Cognitive remediation is a management tool widely used by practitioners to help patients who experience cognitive difficulties. Currently, no program can meet specific and validated the problems are children with intellectual disabilities manner in their daily functioning.

Full description

Cognitus & ME is a remediation program focused on attentional functions and visuospatial, to limit the presence of behavioral disorders among children with intellectual disabilities.The main objective is to validate the effectiveness of Cognitus & ME program on behavioral disorders in children with intellectual disabilities (with or without autism spectrum disorder associated).

Enrollment: 18 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 5 to 13 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Children with intellectual deficiency (5-13 years) (40 < total IQ < 75) with or without autism spectrum disorders
• Native French speaker
• Clinically stable
• Parental consent

Exclusion criteria

• visual or auditory disorder
• history of neurological illness or trauma
• Absence of language

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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18 participants in 2 patient groups

Cognitus and Me

Experimental group

Description:

Cognitus \& Me is a cognitiv remediation program focused on the functions of attention and visuospatial that is to say that can move in space, to perceive objects of our environment and organize them, to mentally imagine a physically absent operation object very involved in social behavior, in order to limit the presence of behavioral disorders among children with intellectual disabilities.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Cognitive remediation program

control group

Active Comparator group

Description:

the control management that involves fine motor skills and research computer information,management control is usually done

Treatment:

Behavioral: Cognitive remediation program