Annalisa Guarini

University of Bologna

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Alessandra Sansavini

University of Bologna

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Antonella Brighi

Free University of Bozen-Bolzano

Silvia Savini

University of Bologna

Giacomo Faldella

Policlinico S.Orsola-Malpighi

Rosina Alessandroni

Policlinico S.Orsola-Malpighi

María Luisa Genta

University of Bologna

Mariagrazia Zuccarini

University of Bologna

Damiano Menin

University of Ferrara

Peter K. Smith

Goldsmiths University of London

Consuelo Mameli

University of Bologna

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University of Bologna

Istituti di Ricovero e Cura a Carattere Scientifico

Policlinico S.Orsola-Malpighi

Google (United States)

Azienda USL di Bologna

Istituto delle Scienze Neurologiche di Bologna

University of Córdoba

King's College London

University of Florida

Universidad de Sevilla

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Night Sleep and Parental Bedtime Practices in Low-Risk Preterm and Full-Term Late Talkers

Children (2022)

Alessandra Sansavini Martina Riva Mariagrazia Zuccarini Arianna Aceti Luigi Corvaglia

Night sleep and parental bedtime practices have rarely been investigated in late talkers. This study aimed to explore: night sleep, parental bedtime practices, and their associations in late talkers as well as individual, socio-demographic, and socio-relational factors affecting them. Parents of 47 30-month-old late talkers, born low-risk preterm (n = 24) or full-term (n = 23), with an expressive vocabulary size ≤10th percentile measured by the MacArthur-Bates Communicative Development Inventory Words and Sentences, and normal cognitive abilities measured by the Bayley Scales, completed the Infant Sleep Questionnaire, the Parental Interactive Bedtime Behaviour Scale, and the Parenting Stress Index Short Form. Results showed slight settling difficulties, night wakings, and frequent co-sleeping in late talkers. Encouraging autonomy practices were frequently used by parents, rather than active physical comforting ones. Recurrent settling difficulties were reported by parents who often applied encouraging autonomy practices, whereas greater night waking problems and frequent co-sleeping were reported by parents who often left their child crying. Low-risk preterm birth and mother’s parenting stress predicted total sleep difficulties and night wakings; first-born, high maternal education level and mother’s parenting stress predicted settling difficulties; mother’s parenting stress was the only predictor for co-sleeping and leaving to cry. These findings have relevant implications for improving late talkers’ night sleep and their parents’ bedtime practices.

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10.3390/children9121813

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Describing communication profiles of low-risk preterm and full-term late talkers

Journal of Communication Disorders (2023)

Mariagrazia Zuccarini Annalisa Guarini Dino Gibertoni Chiara Suttora Arianna Aceti

Late talkers represent a heterogeneous population. We aimed to describe communication profiles of low-risk preterm and full-term late talkers according to their receptive and expressive vocabulary size, considering communicative, linguistic, cognitive, and motor skills, as well as biological and environmental risk factors. Sixty-eight late talkers (33 born low-risk preterm and 35 full-term) were identified through a language screening at 30 months. Parents filled out the Italian Short Forms of the MacArthur Bates Communicative Development Inventories and the Socio Conversational Skills Rating Scales. Children were assessed with the Picture Naming Game test and the Bayley Scales of Infant and Toddler Development. A two-step cluster analysis identified three distinct profiles among late talkers according to their receptive and expressive vocabulary size. Severe late talkers (25%) showed less frequent use of pointing, limited verbal imitation, receptive vocabulary size, lexical and sentence production, responsiveness and assertiveness, and lower cognitive scores than mild late talkers (40%). Moderate late talkers (35%) showed less frequent verbal imitation, limited lexical and sentence production and lower cognitive scores than mild late talkers. Male gender was significantly more represented in the severe late profile, whereas other biological and environmental factors did not differ among the three profiles. Findings highlighted the relevance of assessing communicative, lexical, grammar, pragmatic, and cognitive skills to describe late talkers' profiles. A deeper investigation of phonological skills might also contribute to a further understanding of interindividual variability in this population.

Toddler

10.1016/j.jcomdis.2023.106336

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Cognitive development and oral and written linguistic competences in preterm children: developmental trajectories at risk or atypical?

Psicologia clinica dello sviluppo (2010)

Annalisa Guarini Alessandra Sansavini

10.1449/32002

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Cognitive, motor and comunicative-linguistic developmental trajectories of extremely low gestational age preterms compared to full terms: a longitudinal study in the first year of life.

Nova Science Publishers, Inc. eBooks (2012)

Alessandra Sansavini Silvia Savini Annalisa Guarini

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Maternal responses and communication development in extremely preterm infants.

Alessandra Sansavini Erika Benassi Annalisa Guarini Silvia Savini M. C. Caselli

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Maternal responses and development of communication skills in extremely preterm infants

First Language (2017)

Erika Benassi Annalisa Guarini Silvia Savini Jana M. Iverson María Cristina Caselli

The present study examined maternal responses to infants’ spontaneous communicative behaviors in a sample of 20 extremely-low-gestational-age (ELGA) infants and 20 full-term (FT) infants during 30 minutes of play interaction when infants were 12 months of age. Relations between maternal responses and infants’ communication skills at 12 and 24 months were investigated. Maternal responses were coded according to their contingency and degree of relevance to the infant’s communicative signal. Despite the less advanced gestural abilities of ELGA infants, their mothers produced high percentages of contingent and relevant responses, as did mothers of their FT peers. Maternal contingent and highly relevant responses (i.e., those with a repeated label) were associated with ELGA infants’ receptive and expressive communication skills at 12 months and predicted expressive communication skills at 24 months. Results suggest that contingent maternal responses with a repeated label following infants’ spontaneous communicative behaviors support communicative development, particularly among ELGA infants.

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10.1177/0142723717736449

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Sviluppo linguistico nei nati pretermine: dall'età prescolare all'età scolare.

Annalisa Guarini Alessandra Sansavini

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Mindful Parenting Intervention MinUTo App for Parents of Preschool Children: Study Protocol of a Randomised Controlled Trial

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (2022)

Annalisa Guarini Alessandra Sansavini Chiara Suttora Stefania Bortolotti Margherita Fort

Mindful parenting and the use of technology for parenting intervention have expanded separately from one another with promising results, but their relationship is underexplored. The current study protocol proposes a new universal intervention via app, MINd Us TOghether (MinUTo), based on mindful parenting for parents of typically developing children of 4-5 years of age.

Positive parenting

10.3390/ijerph19137564

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Communicative and motor developmental indexes at 12 months in extremely preterm infants.

Alessandra Sansavini Erika Benassi Silvia Savini Annalisa Guarini Marta Caselli

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The Phenomenon of Cyberbullying in Adolescence

Rassegna di psicologia (2009)

María Luisa Genta Lucia Berdondini Antonella Brighi Annalisa Guarini

Phenomenon

10.7379/70566

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