Adele Boccasini

Adele Boccasini, MA and clinical psychologist, is a research assistant at the No-Profit Organization "Lega del Filo d'Oro", a rehabilitative center for deaf and blind persons who present multiple disabilities. Her main topics concern the assistive technologies and microswitch-based programs for promoting self-determination and independence of individuals with severe to profound developmental disabilities. Specifically, her work deals with aided-alternative and augmentative communication strategies (e.g. speech generating devices) for non verbal children (e.g. Rett syndrome and post-coma patients in a minimally conscious state and/or emerging from it), cluster technology aimed at pursuing the dual goal of enhancing an adaptive response and simultaneously decreasing a challenge behavior, microswitches and contingent stimulation for fostering locomotion, computer and microswitch-based interventions for improving leisure skills. Within this framework, she co-authored several papers on different indexed and peer-reviewed journals.

Publications

Technological Solutions for Helping Adaptive Responding of Children with Severe to Profound Developmental Disabilities: A Literature Overview
Technological Solutions for Helping Adaptive Responding of Children with Severe to Profound Developmental Disabilities: A Literature Overview
Viviana Perilli, Fabrizio Stasolla, Adele Boccasini. © 2022. 14 pages.
This article provides the reader with a literature overview of the newest empirical evidences available on the use of assistive technology-based programs for teaching and...
Assistive Technology for Supporting Communication, Occupation, and Leisure by Children With Severe to Profound Developmental Disabilities
Assistive Technology for Supporting Communication, Occupation, and Leisure by Children With Severe to Profound Developmental Disabilities
Fabrizio Stasolla, Viviana Perilli, Adele Boccasini. © 2019. 13 pages.
This chapter provides a literature overview (i.e., range period 2000-2015) concerning the use assistive technology (AT) for children with severe to profound developmental...
Technological Solutions for Helping Adaptive Responding of Children with Severe to Profound Developmental Disabilities: A Literature Overview
Technological Solutions for Helping Adaptive Responding of Children with Severe to Profound Developmental Disabilities: A Literature Overview
Viviana Perilli, Fabrizio Stasolla, Adele Boccasini. © 2019. 13 pages.
This article provides the reader with a literature overview of the newest empirical evidences available on the use of assistive technology-based programs for teaching and...
Assistive Technology for Supporting Communication, Occupation, and Leisure by Children With Severe to Profound Developmental Disabilities
Assistive Technology for Supporting Communication, Occupation, and Leisure by Children With Severe to Profound Developmental Disabilities
Fabrizio Stasolla, Viviana Perilli, Adele Boccasini. © 2018. 11 pages.