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Erica Salomone

Associate Professor in Developmental Psychology
Academia
Italy

About Erica

Erica Salomone is Associate Professor of Developmental Psychology at the University of Milano-Bicocca. Her research focuses on developing, adapting, and evaluating intervention models for autism and other neurodevelopmental disorders. She serves as a technical consultant for the World Health Organization’s Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse and contributes to the international working group on WHO Caregiver Skills Training. Erica conducts research in public community settings in Italy and globally, across high- and low-income countries. Her work also explores technology-driven solutions to promote inclusion and accessibility, using digital tools to support families and professionals in implementing evidence-based practices.

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Meet Kica: Design, prototyping and user testing of a mobile application based on the WHO Caregiver Skills Training

Written by Giulia de Leonardis, Monica Vanoncini, Giulia Gatti, Alice Arnoldi, Alessandro Gabbiadini, Mariachiara Fioravanti, Laura Zampini, Erica Salomone

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Parent-mediated social communication therapy for young children with autism (PACT): long-term follow-up of a randomised controlled trial

Written by Prof Andrew Pickles, PhDa ∙ Prof Ann Le Couteur, FRCPsychb,c ∙ Kathy Leadbitter, PhDd ∙ Erica Salomone, PhDa ∙ Rachel Cole-Fletcher, PhDb ∙ Hannah Tobin, BScd ∙ Isobel Gammer, MSca ∙ Jessica Lowry, MScb ∙ George Vamvakas, MSca ∙ Prof Sarah Byford, PhDa ∙ Catherine Aldred, PhDd ∙ Vicky Slonims, PhDe ∙ Prof Helen McConachie, PhDb ∙ Prof Patricia Howlin, PhDa ∙ Jeremy R Parr, MDb ∙ Prof Tony Charman, PhDa ∙ Prof Jonathan Green, FRCPsych

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Acceptability and feasibility of the World Health Organization's Caregiver Skills Training implemented in the Italian National Health System

Written by Erica Salomone, Camilla Ferrante, Arianna Salandin, Federica Ferrara, Elisabetta Torchio, Giulia Foletti, Sabrina Ghersi; CST Italy Team; WHO CST Team; Laura Pacione, Chiara Servili

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Development of the WHO Caregiver Skills Training Program for Developmental Disorders or Delays

Written by Erica Salomone, Laura Pacione, Stephanie Shire, Felicity L. Brown, Brian Reichow, Chiara Servili.

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Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial of the WHO Caregiver Skills Training in Public Health Services in Italy

Written by Erica Salomone, Michele Settanni, Helen McConachie, Katharine Suma, Federica Ferrara, Giulia Foletti, Arianna Salandin; WHO CST Team; Chiara Servili, Lauren B Adamson

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Treatment mechanism of the WHO caregiver skills training intervention for autism delivered in community settings

Written by Michele Settanni, Katharine Suma, Lauren B Adamson, Helen McConachie, Chiara Servili, Erica Salomone

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Preemptive, parent-mediated support for the early neurodevelopment of infants with family history of autism and ADHD in Brazil: Protocol for a randomised controlled trial evaluating the efficacy of the iBASIS intervention

Written by Elizabeth Shephard, Priscilla Brandi Gomes Godoy, Nádia P Slwczuk, Louise C Figueiredo, Luara Otoch, Glauce Ubeid, Caroline Andrade, Karen D Moreira, Carolina C Abati, Luaê HR Santos, Leila Jaruche, Erica Salomone, Kathy Leadbitter, Juliana P Bruckner, Guilherme V. Polanczyk, Carol Taylor, Emily J.H. Jones, Tony Charman, Jonathan Green.

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Adapting and pre-testing the World Health Organization's Caregiver Skills Training programme for autism and other developmental disorders in a very low-resource setting: Findings from Ethiopia

Written by Bethlehem Tekola, Fikirte Girma, Mersha Kinfe, Rehana Abdurahman, Markos Tesfaye, Zemi Yenus; WHO CST Team; Erica Salomone, Laura Pacione, Abebaw Fekadu, Chiara Servili, Charlotte Hanlon, Rosa A Hoekstra

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