UAB AIM Virtual Magic Camp

Hon K. Yuen, PhD

Status: Completed

Conditions: Autism

Treatments: Behavioral: Autism Research

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04840498

300005328

Details and patient eligibility

About

The magic camp for children with disabilities at UAB has been conducted yearly since 2018. This year, because of the Covid-19, the magic camp will be conducted online. The virtual magic camp will start in the beginning of June . It will run for 4 weeks. After one cohort, there will be another cohort starts in the beginning of July . Each cohort will have about 30 children with disabilities. Two occupational therapy graduate students will teach each child via Zoom to learn magic hand trick 3 times a week, one hour each. No studies evaluate the psychological benefits of learning magic tricks via online in children with disabilities. Therefore, this study is to evaluate the psychological being of the children participants after completing a virtual magic camp.

Enrollment: 18 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 9 to 18 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion and exclusion criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• Have some form of ASD

Trial design

18 participants in 2 patient groups

Magic Camp Session #1

Description:

Children ages 9-18

Treatment:

Behavioral: Autism Research

Magic Camp Session #2

Description:

Children ages 9-18

Treatment:

Behavioral: Autism Research