Neurodevelopmental Disorders (NDD) are a group of conditions with onset in the developmental period characterized by deficits in the cognitive and social areas. Conversational agents have been increasingly explored to support therapeutic interventions for people with NDD. This survey provides a structured view of the crucial design features of these systems, the types of therapeutic goals they address, and the empirical methods adopted for their evaluation. From this analysis, we elaborate a set of recommendations and highlight the gaps left unsolved in the state of the art, upon which we ground a research agenda on conversational agents for NDD.

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神经发育障碍治疗干预中的会话代理：一项调查

神经发育障碍 (NDD) 是一组在发育期发病的病症，其特征是认知和社会领域的缺陷。越来越多地探索对话代理来支持 NDD 患者的治疗干预。该调查提供了这些系统的关键设计特征、它们解决的治疗目标类型以及用于评估它们的实证方法的结构化视图。从这一分析中，我们制定了一系列建议，并强调了现有技术中尚未解决的差距，在此基础上，我们制定了 NDD 会话代理的研究议程。