A Story for Pepper & Nao

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.

NCT Number	NCT06797050
Lead Sponsor	IRCCS Fondazione Stella Maris Collaborators: IRCCS Eugenio Medea, IRCCS National Neurological Institute "C. Mondino" Foundation, University of Florence
Conditions	Children and Adolescents With Neuromotor Impairment
Enrollment	80 participants
Start Date	2025-04-01
Primary Completion	2026-09-01 (estimated)
Study Completion	2026-10-30 (estimated)
Updated on ClinicalTrials.gov	2026-04-02