Collaboration to contribute to the growing research using machine learning and artificial intelligence to analyze behaviors expressed by children and their caregivers via home video.

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PALO ALTO, Calif. and IRVINE, Calif. - ACES 2020, LLC, dedicated to enhancing the quality of life for individuals and families impacted with autism or other special needs, today announced a collaborative partnership with the Wall Lab from Stanford University, California.

ACES and Stanford are teaming up to bring a potential new solution to families in need to prevent gaps in access to autism care. ACES will work with the Wall Lab to run a clinical trial testing the efficacy of a new digital therapeutic designed to help children with autism build the social skills they need to thrive. The collaboration will allow families to engage in a fun, brief and cutting-edge treatment option that reinforces ACES' evidence-based clinical model of care

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Headed by groundbreaking Stanford autism researcher Dennis Wall, Ph.D., the Wall Lab is creating an emotion-based charades game called GuessWhat, where children engage in games with a social partner to learn emotion recognition skills.

Approaches to therapeutics and digital medicine are becoming more important in the autism community, given the recent challenges of the pandemic and the lack of access to care for many families across the country and globally. Additionally, data show that lack of access to care disproportionately impacts families of color and lower socioeconomic status, resulting in later diagnoses and fewer treatment options. ACES will help test this new tool from Stanford University in both English and Spanish to contribute to the push for more equitable and accessible healthcare opportunities for these families.

Wall, who is the project's principal investigator, said, "We are excited to collaborate with ACES and their families in an effort to offer our digital therapy as an equitable, accessible, and effective treatment option."

The Wall Lab has already conducted feasibility testing to show that GuessWhat has the potential to impact outcomes on standard behavioral measures, including those already collected by ACES. To enrich the effects of ACES' screen-to-screen telemedicine therapy, five-minute GuessWhat sessions should be played a few times a week for a month, for a total of 1-2 hours across the entire month.

This low-commitment option is a prosocial game, where instead of drawing the player into an immersive game experience, the child actively engages with their social partner to perform well in the game. ACES hopes this innovative, entertaining game, which leverages machine learning and science-backed treatment approaches, will be an engaging and rewarding experience for families and is looking forward to the future of technological advancement in autism healthcare.

"ACES is excited to collaborate with Stanford in improving social skills and caregiver interactions with their children through engaging game-like therapy," said NAME, TITLE.

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About The Wall Lab at Stanford University

The Wall Lab at Stanford is a pediatric innovation lab focused on developing methods in biomedical informatics to disentangle complex conditions that originate in childhood and perpetuate through the life course, including autism and related developmental delays. For over a decade, first on faculty at Harvard and now at Stanford University, Dr. Wall has innovated, adapted and deployed bioinformatic strategies to enable precise and personalized interpretation of high resolution molecular and phenotypic data. Dr. Wall has pioneered the use of machine learning and artificial intelligence for fast, quantitative and mobile detection of neurodevelopmental disorders in children, as well as the use of use of machine learning systems on wearable devices, such as Google Glass, for real-time "exclinical" therapy.

About Autism Comprehensive Educational Services (ACES)

ACES is dedicated to enhancing the quality of life for individuals and families impacted with autism or other special needs. Founded in 1996 by Kristin Farmer, ACES provides comprehensive, professional services to maximize individuals' potential in the home, school, clinic and community using accepted teaching and ABA therapeutic methodologies. ACES operates in more than 50 markets in nine states, serving thousands of clients in Arizona, California, Colorado, Hawaii, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Texas, Utah and Washington with a long track record of outcomes. Learn more at https://blog.acesaba.com/.

Media Contact: Ashley Drag, adrag@acesaba.com

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