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Receptive Vocabulary and Listening Narrative Comprehension of Italian–English Bilingual Children between 5 to 7 Years

Education Sciences, 2023
Vocabulary is the key component of listening narrative comprehension, but its contribution has been scarcely investigated in bilingual children. This study aimed to examine (a) listening narrative comprehension and receptive vocabulary in L1 (Italian ...
Maja Roch, Raffaele Dicataldo, Maria Chiara Levorato   +2 more
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To vaccinate or not to vaccinate? The interplay between pro- and against- vaccination reasons

BMC Public Health, 2023
Background By mid 2023, European countries reached 75% of vaccine coverage for COVID-19 and although vaccination rates are quite high, many people are still hesitant.
Marta Caserotti, Paolo Girardi, Roberta Sellaro, Enrico Rubaltelli, Alessandra Tasso, Lorella Lotto, Teresa Gavaruzzi   +6 more
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Combined Unplugged and Educational Robotics Training to Promote Computational Thinking and Cognitive Abilities in Preschoolers

Education Sciences, 2023
Computational thinking (CT) learning activities are increasingly integrated in early-stage school curricula in several countries. Tools used to teach CT in early school years include unplugged coding—i.e., programming without computing devices—and ...
Chiara Montuori, Gabriele Pozzan, Costanza Padova, Lucia Ronconi, Tullio Vardanega, Barbara Arfé   +5 more
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Analyzing Qualitative Changes in Metalinguistic Processing in Typically Developing 5- to 7-Year-Old Children

Brain Sciences, 2023
This study was based on an analysis of some of the qualitative aspects underlying the findings of previous research into the metalinguistic abilities in 160 Italian-speaking, typically developing children aged from 5 to 7 years.
Sergio Melogno, Maria Antonietta Pinto, Marco Lauriola   +2 more
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Direct and Indirect Pathways of Variation in Length of Exposure to the Majority Language, Cognitive and Language Skills in Preschoolers’ Listening Narrative Comprehension

Children, 2021
Listening narrative comprehension, according to the theoretical framework of the multicomponent model for comprehension, involves numerous skills that interact dynamically between each other and have the potential to give rise to individual differences ...
Raffaele Dicataldo, Maja Roch
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Improving the Ability to Write Persuasive Texts in a Boy with Autism Spectrum Disorder: Outcomes of an Intervention

Brain Sciences, 2020
In this paper, we describe an intervention implemented to assist a 13.2-year-old boy with Autism Spectrum Disorder, G, without intellectual disability, aimed at improving his ability to compose persuasive texts. There was an initial assessment (baseline),
Sergio Melogno, Maria Antonietta Pinto, Andrea Ruzza, Teresa Gloria Scalisi   +3 more
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Socio-Emotional and Cognitive Development in Intrauterine Growth Restricted (IUGR) and Typical Development Infants: Early Interactive Patterns and Underlying Neural Correlates. Rationale and Methods of the Study

Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 2018
Intrauterine growth restriction (IUGR) is defined as a fetal growth retardation, resulting in an estimated fetal weight less than the 10th centile for gestational age.
Chiara Sacchi, Pietro De Carli, Giovanni Mento, Giovanni Mento, Teresa Farroni, Silvia Visentin, Alessandra Simonelli   +6 more
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How Does It Feel to Be Online? Psychotherapists’ Self-Perceptions in Telepsychotherapy Sessions During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Italy

Frontiers in Psychology, 2021
Aims: The COVID-19 pandemic and consequent extreme restrictions imposed by governments across the world forced psychotherapists to abruptly change their working modality. The first aim of the current study was to assess psychotherapists’ self-perceptions
Elisa Mancinelli, Emanuela S. Gritti, Arianna Schiano Lomoriello, Silvia Salcuni, Vittorio Lingiardi, Tommaso Boldrini   +5 more
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Coding in Primary Grades Boosts Children’s Executive Functions

Frontiers in Psychology, 2019
Several programs have been developed worldwide to improve children’s executive functions (EFs). Yet, the role played in EF development by learning activities embedded in the school curriculum has received scarce attention.
Barbara Arfé, Tullio Vardanega, Chiara Montuori, Marta Lavanga   +3 more
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The Impact of the Covid-19 Pandemic on the Well-Being and Diabetes Management of Adolescents With Type 1 Diabetes and Their Caregivers: A Scoping Review

Frontiers in Clinical Diabetes and Healthcare, 2022
The Covid-19 pandemic and its related restriction measures might negatively impact diabetes management and well-being of adolescents with Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus (T1DM) and their caregivers.
Giulia Bassi, Giulia Bassi, Elisa Mancinelli, Elisa Mancinelli, Gaia Dell’Arciprete, Silvia Salcuni   +5 more
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