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SOURCES: 2008 Medical Reference from Medstar Television. Fred Biasini, PhD, Developmental Psychologist, University of Alabama, Birmingham, AL. Maria Hopkins, PhD, Researcher, University of Alabama, Birmingham, AL.

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MaryLeigh and Maria :

It doesn't have a mouth. The mouth – very good. Is it that one?

Narrator :

11-year-old Maryleigh Wear (MARY-LEE WARE) is having fun trying out a new computer program called FaceSay (FACE-SAY) .

MaryLeigh Wear:

There's one game where you have to pick objects that she's, that somebody's looking at. And the other game you have to put band-aids on people.

Narrator:

Researchers at the University of Alabama Birmingham want to see if the game can help kids with autism recognize facial expressions.

Maria Hopkins, Ph.D.:

We found that children with autism, in particular, really had difficulties recognizing emotions. And in particularly, they tended to look at the lower part of the face than the upper part of the face.

Narrator :

The game tries to encourage kids to read facial cues by looking at a person's eyes.

Maria Hopkins, Ph.D.:

Yea you got it.

Fred Biasini, Ph.D. :

There are a number of questions that we're trying to address. One of the questions is: Do they, can we get them to look at the eyes and then become more global lookers at the face instead of just focusing on the lower half of the face. The other question is how much do they actually know or understand about the concepts of the expressions.

Narrator:

So far the findings are promising. Kids with mild to moderate autism got better at reading facial expressions and emotions.

Bullseye.

Maria Hopkins, Ph.D.:

On the playground, we saw improvements in how they approached other children. They were using more eye contact and following people's eye gaze.

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Parents also reported improvements at home. For WebMD, I'm Sandee LaMotte.

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