A Story for Pepper & Nao

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Conditions studied: Children and Adolescents With Neuromotor Impairment

In brief

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.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT06797050

Run by

IRCCS Fondazione Stella Maris

People needed

80

Starts

2025-04-01

Expected to finish

2026-10-30

Last updated by the study team

2026-04-02

Who can join

Age: 7 and older, up to 16. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• 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

You may not qualify if…

• Severe neurological, motor, or sensory deficit such as to preclude the feasibility of training
• Psychiatric comorbidity such as to preclude the feasibility of training

Where it is running

• IRCCS Fondazione Stella Maris — Calambrone, Pisa, Italy (enrolling)
• IRCCS Eugenio Medea — Bosisio Parini, Lecco, Italy
• IRCCS Istituto Neurologico Naz.le C.Mondino — Pavia, Pavia, Italy

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