Zhansaule Telisheva
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Total Citations
138
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About
Zhansaule Telisheva is a researcher whose work sits at the intersection of human-robot interaction, assistive technology, and educational robotics, with a particular focus on vulnerable child populations. She is best known for her extensive investigations into robot-assisted autism therapy (RAAT), conducting one of the field's more ambitious clinical studies involving 34 children with diverse presentations of Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), ADHD, and delayed speech development. Her research has systematically examined socio-emotional outcomes, individual differences, parental involvement, and the design of multi-purposeful robot activities — work that has collectively accumulated nearly 100 citations and meaningfully advanced understanding of how social robots can be tailored to heterogeneous therapeutic needs. Notably, her 2022 study on parental involvement in RAAT (28 citations) highlights an often-overlooked dimension of robot-mediated therapy, demonstrating that caregiver presence significantly shapes therapeutic outcomes. Beyond therapy, Telisheva has made distinctive contributions to educational robotics in Central Asia, developing the CoWriting Kazakh system to support Kazakhstan's national transition from Cyrillic to Latin script, and designing Montessori-inspired child-robot interactions for alphabet learning. Her body of work reflects a commitment to deploying robotics in contexts of genuine social need.
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- 1Effects of Parental Involvement in Robot-Assisted Autism Therapy28 citations · 2022
- 2CoWriting Kazakh21 citations · 2020
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- 5Multi-Purposeful Activities for Robot-Assisted Autism Therapy11 citations · 2023
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