Coordinators: Rosa Vilaseca Momplet and Magda Rivero García
Researchers: Marc Coronas Puig-Pallarols, Nuria Bonet Agusti, Esther Pertusa, Josep A. Bazoco García, Cristina Mumbardó, Lori Roggman, Mark Innocenti, Gina Cook, Claudia R. Portilla, Oliveras Mirabell, Maryam El Khayat, Clara Andrés Gárriz, Neus Solé Ferrer, Silvia Martinez Perramon.
Research Areas Ongoing
- Family, quality of life, parental self-efficacy and family well-being: The family as a promoter of the quality of life and development of children and adolescents with normotypic development or with disabilities (ID and/or ASD or others).
- Communicative and linguistic development: Parental support, child-directed speech and collaborative interventions with educators (family and school).
- Self-determination in people with disabilities (ID and/or ASD or others): Evaluation and intervention programs from a family-centered intervention model.
- Interventions with educators (parents/siblings, teachers…): Programmes to promote positive parenting, video-feedback, programmes for families with children with normotypic development or with disabilities (ID and/or ASD or others), parenting assessment instruments.
- Assistive Technologies and Assisted Language: Resources for Augmentative and Alternative Communication.
Research Projects
Efficacy of Video-feedback to promote positive parenting in families with children at risk of Autism Spectrum Disorder (PID2020-113401RB-100). Funding body: State Programme for Research, Development and Innovation Oriented to the Challenges of Society, Ministry of Economy, Industry and Competitiveness. Principal Investigators: Rosa Vilaseca and Magda Rivero. Start: 2021 – Final: 2025
Notable Publications
Vilaseca, R., Rivero, M., Bersabé, R. M., Navarro-Pardo, E., Cantero, M. J., Ferrer, F., & Valls-Vidal, C. (2021). Interacciones parentales con los/as niños/as: Lista de ítems de observación vinculados al desarrollo. Publicaciones Universidad de Valencia; Universidad de Barcelona Ediciones.
Von Tetzchner, S., Martinsen, H., & Stadskleiv, K. (2026). Comunicación aumentativa y alternativa para niños, adolescentes y adultos con trastornos del desarrollo (M. Coronas Puig-Pallarols & F. Vega, Trads.). Ediciones Pirámide.
Innocenti, M. S., Vilaseca, R., & Roggman, L. (2023). PICCOLO: Observing and coaching caregiver–child interaction to support early development in children with and without disabilities. En L. Provenzi, S. Grumi, & R. Borgatti (Eds.), Family-centered care in childhood disability (pp. 123–145). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-34252-3_7
Andrés-Gárriz, C., Farriols Hernando, N., Gómez Hinojosa, A. M., Pretel-Luque, T., Fàbregues, S., & Mumbardó-Adam, C. (2025). Promoting self-determination in young adults with autism: A multicenter, mixed methods study. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 1-20. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10803-025-06739-6
Vilaseca, R., Rivero, M., Leiva, D., Roggman, L. A., & Innocenti, M. S. (2025). The use of video feedback to promote developmentally supportive parent-child interactions with young children with ASD or at risk: Study protocol for a randomized controlled trial (VIFEPOPA-RCT). BMC psychology, 13(1), 196. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40359-025-02494-6
Andrés-Gárriz, C., Farriols Hernando, N., Gómez Hinojosa, A. M., Pretel-Luque, T., Fàbregues, S., & Mumbardó-Adam, C. (2025). Promoting Self-Determination in Young Adults with Autism: A multicenter, mixed methods study. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10803-025-06739-6
Mumbardó-Adam, C., Vicente, E., & Balboni, G. (2024). Self-determination and quality of life of people with intellectual and developmental disabilities: Past, present, and future of close research paths. Journal of Policy and Practice in Intellectual Disabilities, 21, e12460. https://doi.org/10.1111/jppi.12460
El Khayat, M., Rivero, M., & Anguera, M. T. (2024). Being a Pakistani mother in Catalonia: A mixed methods study. Frontiers in Psychology, 15, 1386029. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2024.1386029
Mumbardó-Adam, C., Vicente, E., Simó-Pinatella, D., & Balboni, G. (2023). Understanding how self-determination affects the quality of life of young people with intellectual disability. International Journal of Disability, Development and Education, 71(6), 968–986. https://doi.org/10.1080/1034912X.2023.2212619
Rivero, M., Vilaseca, R., Cantero, M. J., Valls-Vidal, C., & Leiva, D. (2023). Relations between positive parenting behavior during play and child language development at early ages. Children, 10(3), 505. https://doi.org/10.3390/children10030505
Rivero, M., Vilaseca, R., Cantero, M.-J., Navarro-Pardo, E., Ferrer, F., Valls-Vidal, C., & et al. (2022). Parenting of Spanish mothers and fathers playing with their children at home. PLOS ONE, 17(6), e0266762. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0266762
Vilaseca, R., Rivero, M., Leiva, D., & Ferrer, F. (2022). Mothers’ and fathers’ parenting and other family context variables linked to developmental outcomes in young children with intellectual disability: A two-wave longitudinal study. Journal of Developmental and Physical Disabilities. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10882-022-09856-7
Theses Completed in the Last 5 Years
Léniz-Maturana, L. (2024). Relación entre parentalidad y desarrollo infantil: Un estudio en madres adolescentes de la Región del Biobío. Dirigida por Dra. Rosa Vilaseca y David Leiva. Universidad de Barcelona. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/694568
Andrés Gárriz, C. (2024). Understanding and addressing the support needs of young adults with autism: The creation and implementation of a program to develop self-determination. Supervisors Dra. N. Farriols, Dra. Gómez & Dra. Mumbardó. Universidad de Barcelona. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/690502