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Individuals with developmental disabilities make their own stylistic contributions to text written with physical facilitation (2023)
Journal Article
Nicoli, G., Pavon, G., Grayson, A., Emerson, A., Cortelazzo, M., & Mitra, S. (2023). Individuals with developmental disabilities make their own stylistic contributions to text written with physical facilitation. Frontiers in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 2, Article 1182884. https://doi.org/10.3389/frcha.2023.1182884

Introduction: For individuals with developmental disabilities (DD) such as autism, Down syndrome, or cerebral palsy, learning to express with language is a two-fold challenge because atypical cognitive capacity is compounded by sensorimotor coordinat... Read More about Individuals with developmental disabilities make their own stylistic contributions to text written with physical facilitation.

Touch may reduce cognitive load during assisted typing by individuals with developmental disabilities (2023)
Journal Article
Nicoli, G., Pavon, G., Grayson, A., Emerson, A., & Mitra, S. (2023). Touch may reduce cognitive load during assisted typing by individuals with developmental disabilities. Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience, 17, Article 1181025. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnint.2023.1181025

Many techniques have attempted to provide physical support to ease the execution of a typing task by individuals with developmental disabilities (DD). These techniques have been controversial due to concerns that the support provider’s touch can infl... Read More about Touch may reduce cognitive load during assisted typing by individuals with developmental disabilities.

A Scoping Review of School-Based Strategies for Addressing Anxiety, Intolerance of Uncertainty and Prediction in Autistic Pupils (2023)
Journal Article
Emerson, A., & Costley, D. (2023). A Scoping Review of School-Based Strategies for Addressing Anxiety, Intolerance of Uncertainty and Prediction in Autistic Pupils. Education Sciences, 13(6), Article 575. https://doi.org/10.3390/educsci13060575

In a typical school day, young people need to do many tasks which rely on the ability to predict. Since prediction underpins cognitive and social skills, difficulties with prediction lead to multiple challenges to learning. In this review, we conside... Read More about A Scoping Review of School-Based Strategies for Addressing Anxiety, Intolerance of Uncertainty and Prediction in Autistic Pupils.