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Crofton specialist uses robot to help children with developmental disorders

Capital Gazette Communications
Published 08/06/09

Sometimes, a big smile goes a long way when it comes to treating children.

Arianne Teeple — For The Capital Neurodevelopmental specialist Dr. Carole Samango-Sprouse works with Dylan to push buttons that make CosmoBot move back and forth and side to side during an office visit last week.
Dr. Carole Samango-Sprouse explains the benefits of using robots such as CosmoBot with children who have sex chromosome disorders.
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Especially when it comes from a 14-inch-high blue robot that looks a bit like a cartoon character.

"I thought it was pretty neat," Kristal Falcone of Westerly, R.I., said after she watched her 4-year-old, Dylan, interact with CosmoBot last week at the Crofton offices of Dr. Carole Samango-Sprouse.

"I can see (children like Dylan) be more willing to work with something like that, versus a speech therapist or myself or my husband," she added. "If he thinks it's a game, he's more willing to...

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