Federico Bianchi di Castelbianco

Instutute of Ortophonology

I disturbi dello spettro autistico sono caratterizzati da difficoltà nell'interazione socio-comunicativa, dalla presenza di comportamenti e interessi ristretti e ripetitivi. In determinate circostanze, ad esempio durante un periodo di lockdown, quando l'isolamento sociale e il distanziamento diventano obbligatori per tutti, in particolare per le fa...

The discipline of osteopathy is a whole person approach that incorporates medical and scientific knowledge using an array of manipulative techniques for diagnosis and treatment of several types of diseases (WHO). The ostheopathic examination allows to locate somatic dysfunctions which are the hallmarks of health imbalance caused by stressful events...

Autism spectrum disorders (ASD) constitute a relatively heterogeneous set of neurodevelopmental disorders characterised by social-communication impairments and the presence of repetitive and restricted behaviours, activities, and interests. These core characteristics determine developmental anomalies in both cognitive and relational profile and are...

Autism spectrum disorders are generally regarded as lifelong conditions, affecting communication, relationships, and adaptive skills. Studies on the developmental trajectories of people out of autism have found adequate adaptive social-communication skills, effective experiences of inclusion in regular education classrooms, normal intellective func...

Background During the first SARS-CoV-2 pandemic phase, the sudden closure of schools was one of the main measures to minimize the spread of the virus. In the second phase, several safety procedures were implemented to avoid school closure. To evaluate if the school is a safe place, students and staff of two school complexes of Rome were monitored t...

Raising a child with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) can be a very stressful experience, impacting parents and their ability to take care of their child. We examined the relationship between parenting stress and child, and parent and contextual factors in a sample of 61 families of children with ASD recruited in a centre for ASD assessment and treat...

La narrazione è il primo strumento conoscitivo e interpretativo di cui l’uomo fa uso nella sua esperienza di vita. Il racconto innesca processi di comprensione ed elaborazione che consentono di dare senso e significato ai vissuti e che permettono di costruire forme di conoscenza che orientano le azioni. Il volume raccoglie le testimonianze di varie...

Background: Autism spectrum disorder is a complex condition with wide variation in type and severity that involves persistent challenges in social interaction, speech and nonverbal communication, restricted/repetitive behaviours and adaptive behaviours. In recent years, research has deepened the study of the predictive factors of optimal outcome, i...

Parents of children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) have to address various challenges mainly due to their children’s atypia related to communication, emotion regulation and behaviors, arising also within the relationship with their caregivers. Several studies have pointed out that children with ASD can exhibit many difficulties regarding initi...

Pediatric hospitalization is a common experience that may increase children’s sense of isolation and impinge on their social-emotional wellbeing. Educators and medical practitioners could minimize these negative effects of hospitalization if they were able to listen to the voices of the children and, therefore, better meet their needs. This qualita...

Noi traghettiamo i ragazzi nel viaggio verso la loro Itaca, che è anche un viaggio attraverso i mali del loro mondo interno, il loro dolore. Un dolore che, una volta accettato, guardato con amore ed elaborato, schiude a meraviglia la loro possibilità di fiorire, per come il destino li ha chiamati a fare. Sfatare i falsi miti con i quali viene etich...

Background and aims: The daily challenges of caring for a child with autism spectrum disorder affect many areas of everyday life and parental well-being, as well as parents’ ability to manage the needs of the family and the child concerned. A better understanding of parents’ perception of their child’s characteristics can allow better support for t...

Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) are characterized by impairments in social interaction and reciprocal communication. During a pandemic, when social distancing becomes mandatory for all, both parents and children are not supported in-person by their therapists and cannot participate in usual therapies. This study reports the main clinical changes ex...

Aim: To describe the epidemiological aspects of nocturnal enuresis (NE). In this study we identify the prevalence and the familial conditions in a large, representative sample of children with monosymptomatic NE (MNE) and nonmonosyptomatic NE (NMNE). Material and methods: In this descriptive-analytic study the Italian Society of Pediatrics (SIP)...

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Early parent–child relationships are an important factor influencing many domains of child development, even in the presence of autism. In this study, we investigated the associations between parent–child attunement during play, parental insightfulness, and parental acceptance of their child’s diagnosis of an autism spectrum disorder. A sample of 5...

Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a neurodevelopmental disorder displaying individual impairments in social interaction, communication skills, interest and behaviours. In the last decade several studies have been published on the approaches that can be used with ASD children. This study illustrated the therapeutic approach of the DERBBI method, def...

Developmental approaches characterized interventions based on the typical sequences of the child's development, paying particular attention to the linguistic, motor and socio-emotional aspects, within a relational perspective. The purpose of this paper was to identify developmental interventions for children with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) age...

Purpose The assessment of Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) in childhood has two essential aspects: the identification of the risk (under 30 months of age) and the definition of a diagnosis that takes into account its core areas as well as further non-specific aspects. The purpose of this paper is to present an approach that considers the combination...

Autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) are a class of neurodevelopmental disorders defined by qualitative impairments in social functioning and communication, often accompanied by repetitive and stereotyped patterns of behaviour’s and interests, with their typical onset during the first three years of life. Recent researches demonstrate that early diagno...

Autism is a neurodevelopmental disorder characterized by impairments in social communication and presence of restricted and repetitive patterns of behavior and interests, including abnormal reactions to sensory stimuli. Atypical responses to sensory input are increasingly recognized as a common feature of ASDs. In addition to repetitive patterns of...

Objective: In developmental age the drawing process represents one of the best tools to assess the level of maturity reached by the child in his various areas of functioning. This study considers a sample of 84 children aged between 2.5 and 15 years, all diagnosed with autism, evaluated by an expert team of professionals, in order to highlight the...

We report challenges and trajectory of symptoms observed during the therapeutic process of a child with speech and language impairment and high intellectual potential which, initially, was concealed both by the described impairment and from others developmental vulnerability areas (psychomotor, emotional regulation etc.). The child, although intell...

This study examines the context of executive functioning in preschool children with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASDs) and verifies the degree of agreement between the compilation of the Behavior Rating Inventory of Executive Functions-Preschool Version (BRIEF-P) by parents and therapists. To this end, parents and professionals of 46 ASD children age...

The Understanding of Others’ Intentions (UOI) is a precursor of the theory of mind. The purpose of this study is to verify whether the absence of UOI is related to the Intelligence Quotient (IQ) or constitutes a typical characteristic of the autistic disorder, and if its presence could be a predictor of a positive symptomatologic evolution. To this...

The article aims to highlight some predictive indicators of improvement in ADOS scores in a group of 49 children with Autism Spectrum Disorders. For this purpose we created a specific protocol named T.U.L.I.P. that, using the Fluid Reasoning of the Leiter-R, the presence of Emotional Contagion (TCE) and the ability to understand the intentions of t...

Il libro raccoglie i contributi di vari esperti, elaborati dopo l’approvazione della legge n. 134/2015 sull’autismo, che si pongono sostanzialmente due obiettivi: mettere a fuoco i quesiti che con maggiore frequenza riguardano il tema dell’autismo, cercado di comprendere perché sia indispensabile parlare di autismi o, comunque, di Disturbo dello Sp...

Background: Children with autism spectrum disorder show a deficit in neurobiological processes. This deficit hinders the development of intentional behavior and appropriate problem-solving, leading the child to implement repetitive and stereotyped behaviors and to have difficulties in reciprocal interactions, empathy and in the development of a the...

-90 Italian children (72 boys, 18 girls) with a diagnosis of infantile autism (age range = 2.5-16.5 yr.) were assessed with a non-verbal intelligence test (Leiter-R). The test was repeated 3 times in four years. The measures used were IQ and Fluid Reasoning (FR), as evaluation of inductive and deductive reasoning, and the Autism Diagnostic Observat...

The School of Education’s Speech-Language Pathology Program, the Institute of Global Understanding, the Office of Global Initiatives and the Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning at Monmouth University, present AUTISM PERCEPTION THROUGH DIFFERENT CULTURES Perspectives on Speech Pathology and Educational Approaches

The School of Education’s Speech-Language Pathology Program, the Institute of Global Understanding, the Office of Global Initiatives and the Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning at Monmouth University, present AUTISM PERCEPTION THROUGH DIFFERENT CULTURES Perspectives on Speech Pathology and Educational Approaches

La rappresentazione grafica costituisce uno strumento per oggettivare il livello di maturazione raggiunto dal bambino in ambito psicomotorio, cognitivo ed emotivo e, nello stesso tempo, si pone come strumento prezioso di espressione sia in ambito educativo che terapeutico. Il comprendere e il saper valutare la produzione grafica di un bambino autis...

Una riflessione sull’eccesso di medicalizzazione dell’infanzia e le sue manifestazioni; una volontà di porre argine all’atteggiamento imperante, in ambito clinico e culturale, che tende a inquadrare i problemi in etichette diagnostiche ancor prima di averli compresi; un invito al mondo della scuola a recuperare le proprie competenze per assicurare...

Ogni giorno milioni di bambini vanno a scuola. La vita scolastica è occasione di crescita, ma molto spesso viene vissuta con paura e disagio. I bambini hanno paura di prendere un brutto voto, di essere presi in giro, di sbagliare un compito, di essere sgridati dalla maestra, di farsi male alla ricreazione, di dover dare la merenda ai bulli... La pa...

La valutazione delle capacità cognitive rappresenta un tassello fondamentale del mosaico diagnostico, che raccoglie e integra il senso della diagnosi stessa. Valutare le funzioni cognitive e le loro manifestazioni all'interno della pervasiva area dell’autismo, conduce il clinico a calibrare la valutazione sulla base delle implicazioni e delle limit...

Il presente volume racchiude una scelta di scritti che hanno accompagnato il lavoro clinico di 40 anni svolto presso l’Istituto di Ortofonologia a favore dei bambini, degli adolescenti e delle loro famiglie. Nato come centro che si occupava prevalentemente dei disturbi del linguaggio e della comunicazione, l’IdO, grazie all’impostazione psicopedago...

Quali sono l’inquadramento teorico e l’approccio educativo più adatti per affrontare i temi dell’affettività e della sessualità in adolescenza? Quali informazioni e modelli proporre per consentire all’adolescente di confrontarsi in modo sufficientemente equilibrato con il proprio corpo, gli affetti e le emozioni? La caratteristica distintiva della...

Quando i bambini più disagiati presenti al laboratorio della Villa Comunale hanno iniziato a prendere a calci il cartone che sarebbe servito per la costruzione della casa, non stavano opponendosi a una richiesta ma stavano semplicemente esprimendo la loro incapacità a vivere quella esperienza. Il rischio che si può correre con i bambini, quando n...

È compito dei ragazzi rompere con la tradizione per contrapporre nuove forme identitarie, ma è compito degli adulti leggere nella trasgressione quella trama che permette un’integrazione tra il vecchio e il nuovo e che consente di fare cultura con il fare degli adolescenti anche alla periferia del mondo. Se possiamo cogliere nei comportamenti dei ra...

The aim of this study is to evaluate psychological aspects of childhood asthma and the connections between the illness and behavioral disturbances in asthmatic children. We selected a group of 47 asthmatic children and a control group of 47 healthy children. The only criterion for inclusion was that the children be between 4 and 10 years of age; cr...

The purpose of this study was to assess, the cognitive and receptive language abilities in children with prelingual hearing impairment, in relation to the age of enrollment in the intervention program and examine the related variables. Seventy children with congenital prelingual deafness were divided into 2 groups based on their age at the start of...

Politzer manoeuvre causes retrograde inflation of the middle ear by forcing air through the Eustachian tube. It has been proposed as nonsurgical treatment of middle ear with effusion, Eustachian tube dysfunction and negative middle ear pressure from elevation changes. Even if Politzer manoeuvre can be considered a classical technique, it is general...

L’elemento che più di ogni altro determina la percezione di una malattia è il vissuto che la accompagna. Per poterlo comprendere è necessario dare direttamente «voce» al bambino, accogliendo le sue modalità espressive e ascoltandone le esperienze di ospedalizzazione. Solo così è possibile capire come il bambino vive e si rappresenta la malattia, di...

Questo libro è la testimonianza di una sfida azzardata che è consistita nella rottura dei pericolosi equilibri della disinformazione nel mercato del farmaco in Italia, al fine di riportare chiarezza su un tema delicato che ci riguarda tutti da vicino: la tutela della salute dei bambini e degli adolescenti, posta a rischio da una nuova e misconosciu...

Body piercings and tattoos are very popular in many countries. We describe the history, origins and peculiarities of the various forms of body art and discuss the reasons and psychological aspects related to this practice. This paper also takes into consideration the possibility that body piercing and tattoos may be an indicator of adolescent risk...

Body piercings and tattoos are more and more popular around the world. We describe the history, origins and peculiarities of the various forms of body art. We have also included a discussion of the motivation for and psychological background behind body art. This paper examines the possibility that body piercings and tattoos are indicators of adole...

Il volume nasce dall'idea di raccogliere contributi contraddistinti da un unico denominatore comune: la centralità della dimensione immaginale nella relazione terapeutica con il bambino. I racconti clinici qui presentati sono animati dall'importanza attribuita al linguaggio metaforico, alla varietà degli strumenti non verbali, alla qualità e al tip...

Nerve growth factor (NGF) and brain derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) are members of a family of structurally related secreted proteins, termed neurotrophins, which promote and regulate the survival of many kinds of neurons in the peripheral nervous system. Aim of the study is to dose the serum level of NGF and BDNF in 8 patients affected by senso...

The difficulty an adult has in identifyng a pathology and distinguishing it from a pseudo-pathology in adolescence, is examined. Adults have the task of determining the uneasiness of the adolescent but very often they are conditioned by their own point of view. Moreover, it can often happen that parents consider a strange behaviour as pathologic sy...

La scuola, si sa, è il luogo dell'incontro-scontro tra i desideri, le speranze, le illusioni e le paure del mondo infantile da una parte e i progetti, le richieste, le aspettative e le preoccupazioni del mondo-adulto dall'altra. Genitori e insegnanti non sempre riescono infatti a riconoscersi in un progetto comune rispetto al bambino che devono edu...

Sante de Sanctis può essere considerato uno dei fondatori della psicologia in Italia alla fine del secolo scorso. Medico e psicologo sperimentale si dedicò all'approfondimento di molteplici ambiti di ricerca: dalla psicologia pedagogica alla psicologia giudiziaria e criminale, dai reattivi mentali agli esperimenti sull'attenzione, dagli studi sulla...

Con l'espressione I «luoghi» del mondo infantile si intende far riferimento a quelle zone metaforiche e reali dove l'adulto educatore e/o terapeuta può incontrare il bambino per dare forma ad un incontro significativo. Nel volume vengono rappresentate le modalità di approccio e di terapia con il bambino - frutto di anni di ricerche ed esperienze sv...

Nella tipologia dei disturbi dell'apprendimento la balbuzie e la sordità occupano una posizione di primo piano, in quanto costituiscono degli ostacoli di notevole entità per la comunicazione in partenza e in arrivo. Non stupisce, quindi, che si moltiplichino gli studi e le ricerche in campo psicologico e clinico, miranti alla messa a punto di metod...