A Story for Pepper & Nao
Trial statusRecruiting
Trial phaseNot applicable
Trial typeInterventional
Biological sexAll
Age7-16
SponsorIRCCS Fondazione Stella Maris
About this trial
The aim of the present study is to improve cognitive processes that are frequently impaired in children characterised by neuromotor impairment, such as the skills of visual-perceptual analysis and selective attention, working memory, narrative organisation, logical-inferential reasoning and motor planning. For this purpose, a task of reordering figurative stories and action sequences, which include the aforementioned processes, will be used through an innovative Learning by Teaching training paradigm with a social robot. Furthermore, the study aims to verify the children's level of behavioural, cognitive and emotional engagement during the interaction with the social robot and to test the generalisation effects of the intervention on other processes, such as working memory, inhibition and planning.
Eligibility criteria
Qualifiers
Children characterized by neuromotor impairment
Presence of at least one cognitive index >70 at WISC-IV or WISC V
Age between 7 and 16 years at the time of recruitment
Disqualifiers
Severe neurological, motor, or sensory deficit such as to preclude the feasibility of training
Psychiatric comorbidity such as to preclude the feasibility of training
Trial design
Treatments tested in this trial
- Training in reordering figurative stories with a social robot through the Learning by Teaching approach
Treatment groups
80 Participants
are divided into 2 treatment groupsSponsors and collaborators
IRCCS Fondazione Stella Maris
Lead sponsor
IRCCS Eugenio Medea
Collaborator
IRCCS National Neurological Institute "C. Mondino" Foundation
Collaborator
University of Florence
Collaborator
Source ClinicalTrials.gov