Virtual Reality Training to Improve Socio-Emotional Functioning in Adolescents with Developmental Language Disorders: A Multiple Baseline Effectiveness Study

This study investigated whether interactive virtual reality training of social skills (InterAction) improves socio-emotional functioning of youth with DLD. To this end we conducted a multiple baseline intervention study, comparing participants’ social skills during a baseline phase with their changes in skills during the posttest phase. The training group consisted of 29 adolescents (20 boys, 9 girls) with DLD from the Netherlands. The training consisted of 9 weeks, with 9 (45-50 min) individual sessions for each participant. For a full description of the training, see the manuscript (in preparation). In addition, to improve estimation of the secondary outcomes, a matched sample of 9 adolescents with DLD was also assessed, but received no treatment. This collection consist of two raw data and two scripts corresponding scripts to replicate the analyses in the paper (in preparation), or to perform your own analyses related to the data obtained from the VR training.