A5026479715- Impact of Technology on Adolescents
- Educational and Social Studies
- Child Development and Digital Technology
- Linguistic Studies and Language Acquisition
- Education and Technology Integration
- Children's Physical and Motor Development
- Down syndrome and intellectual disability research
- Motivation and Self-Concept in Sports
- Assistive Technology in Communication and Mobility
- Bullying, Victimization, and Aggression
- Social Media and Politics
- Digital literacy in education
- COVID-19 and Mental Health
- Language Development and Disorders
- Literacy and Educational Practices
- Educational Methods and Psychological Studies
- Educational Strategies and Epistemologies
- Inclusion and Disability in Education and Sport
- Educational Methods and Impacts
- Cerebral Palsy and Movement Disorders
- Action Observation and Synchronization
- Writing and Handwriting Education
- Disability Education and Employment
- Behavioral Health and Interventions
- Hate Speech and Cyberbullying Detection
Libera Università Maria SS. Assunta
2021-2023
National Research Council
2021-2023
Istituto per le Tecnologie Didattiche
2023
University of Palermo
2012-2020
Italian Society of Physiotherapy
2009-2019
Oasi Maria SS
2008
Istituti di Ricovero e Cura a Carattere Scientifico
2008
Social media have become an integral part of our lives, expanding interlinking capabilities to new levels. There is plenty be said about their positive effects. On the other hand, however, some serious negative implications social been repeatedly highlighted in recent years, pointing at various threats society and its more vulnerable members, such as teenagers, particular, ranging from much-discussed problems digital addiction polarization manipulative influences algorithms further...
Social media has a very important role in adolescents’ daily life, providing them with means for communicating, sharing, representing themselves and creating maintaining relationships. However, social can hide risks the users which undermine their mental well-being, especially amongst adolescents. The exploratory research presented this paper aims at highlighting relationships between conscious use of by adolescents psychological well-being. In particular, we present pilot study involving N...
Abstract A crucial component of language is represented by the prosodic system because it provides essential elements to speaker about how a sentence should be interpreted or intended (Fodor, 2002). Increasing interest from researchers also relates understanding figurative (Levorato, & Cacciari, In figures speech that wants listener intends something more different than what explicitly stated (Glucksberg, 2001). particular, intonation in resolution syntactic ambiguity and structural features...
The research reported here was designed to investigate the critical role played by certain factors implicated in mental representation of text, and establish whether their varies significantly as a function developmental age. Specifically, it decided analyse, sample 180 subjects selected from three different age groups (7, 10 18 years respectively), such mediating influencing generation inferences needed understand piece text characterised sequence information which flows logical order, but...
This study aimed to evaluate the ability of referential communication in subjects with Down Syndrome (DS).We evaluated possibility that is result a set cognitive factors, verbal and nonverbal through evaluation relationship between abilities individuals DS typically developing.In particular, we have identified some critical dimensions communicative function, such as communication, which means subject's produce o listener or messages "referentially oriented", ie are characterized by "clarity...
Social media have become an integral part of our lives, expanding interlinking capabilities to new levels. There is plenty be said about their positive effects. On the other hand, however, some serious negative implications social been repeatedly highlighted in recent years, pointing at various threats society and its more vulnerable members, such as teenagers. We thus propose a theoretical framework based on adaptive "Social Media Virtual Companion" for educating supporting entire...
According to the Bronfenbrenner's ecological systems theory of human development ([1][2][3][4][5]), each individual cannot be observed without considering its relationship with other people and, above all, environment in which they live. The orientation Bronfenbrenner respect is therefore based on interest progressive adaptation between an active organism that grows and immediate environment: individual-environment interaction determined by relationships existing different environmental...