Publications
Saksida A., Rebesco R., Scuderi M., Colombani A., Messineo I., Pavani F., Orzan E., Pintonello S., (2025). The role of symbolic gestures in the path towards auditory rehabilitation of infants with hearing loss: a feasibility study. Deafness & Education International, https://doi.org/10.1080/14643154.2025.2541433
Colombani, A., Peter V., Quian, Y.M., Saksida A., Boll-Avetisyan N., Tuomainen O., Sharma, M. (2025), Cross-situational learning of sign-like gestures in children and adults: a behavioural and event-related potential study. Language, Cognition and Neuroscience https://doi.org/10.1080/23273798.2025.2539136
Rebesco, R., Colombani, A., Handjaras, G., Bottari, D. & Orzan, E. (2024). Early assessment of communicative competence in children with hearing loss using the Child-Caregiver Communication Assessment through Rebesco’s Evaluation (CC-CARE) method. International Journal of Pediatric Otorhinolaryngology. 111927. https://10.1016/j.ijporl.2024.111927
Saksida, A., Rebesco, R., Colombani, A., Pintonello, S., Tonon, E., Santoro, AM. and Orzan, E. (2024) The timeline of non-vocal and vocal communicative skills in infants with hearing loss. Front. Pediatr.11:1209754. https://doi:10.3389/fped.2023.1209754
Colombani, A., Saksida, A., Pavani, F., & Orzan, E. (2022). Symbolic and deictic gestures as a tool to promote parent-child communication in the context of hearing loss: a systematic review. International Journal of Pediatric Otorhinolaryngology,165 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijporl.2022.111421
Colombani, A., Saksida, A., Pintonello, S., De Caro, F., & Orzan, E. (2022). Assessment of Communication Abilities in Four Children with Early Bilateral CIs in Clinical and Home Environments with LENA System: A Case Report. Children (Basel, Switzerland), 9(5), 659.https://doi.org/10.3390/children9050659
Conferences
Colombani, A. (2025) Mini-Workshop “Introduction to applications of Eye-tracking in language studies” at The Second International Conference on the Science of Language and the Brain (Oct 9–10, 2025, Online)
Colombani, A., Peter V., Quian, Y.M., Saksida A., Boll-Avetisyan N., Tuomainen O., Sharma, M. (2024), Cross-situational learning of word-pseudosign pairs in children and adults: a behavioural and event-related potential study. Poster presented at MMSYM Symposium Series on Multimodal Communication, Goethe-University Frankfurt (Germany), September 24–27, 2024
Scuderi, M., Colombani, A. (2018) The Baby Signs program meets the deaf community: an experiential activity to promote the inclusion of Priscilla in the “Bertacchi” municipal nursery school in Padua. Poster presented at 4° Convegno Nazionale LIS, Rome (Italy), November 9–11, 2018.