Ruffini Costanza, Spoglianti Silvia, Bombonato Clara, Bonetti Silvia, Di Lieto Maria Chiara, Pecini Chiara
Department of Education, Languages, Intercultures, Literatures and Psychology (FORLIPSI), University of Florence, Via di San Salvi 12, 50135 Firenze, Italy.
Paroleincerchio, Centro per l'Età Evolutiva, Via Leopardi 90, 40026 Imola, Italy.
Children (Basel). 2021 May 9;8(5):373. doi: 10.3390/children8050373.
Among the interventions recently developed to enhance Executive Functions (EFs) in preschoolers, Quincey Quokka's Quest (QQQ) is an illustrated book proposing EF activities embedded within a shared reading framework (Howard et al., 2017). In the present study, the Italian version of QQQ (QQQ) was tested in 20 typical developing 4-5 year old children. Standardized tests were used to assess EFs pre- and post- intervention. QQQ was conducted once a week for 8 weeks in small groups. A positive trend was registered in QQQ performances from the first to the last sessions and a significant improvement, in comparison to the control condition, was obtained in the Color and Form Game test. These results, supporting the feasibility of the QQQ intervention and its efficacy in increasing shifting abilities, confirm the usefulness of ecological interventions to empower specific EF components in preschool contexts.
在最近为提高学龄前儿童执行功能（EFs）而开发的干预措施中，《昆西短尾矮袋鼠的探索》（QQQ）是一本配有插图的书籍，它提出了在共享阅读框架内开展的执行功能活动（霍华德等人，2017年）。在本研究中，对20名发育正常的4至5岁儿童测试了QQQ的意大利语版本（QQQ）。使用标准化测试在干预前后评估执行功能。QQQ以小组形式每周进行一次，共进行8周。从第一节课到最后一节课，QQQ的表现呈现出积极趋势，并且与对照条件相比，在颜色和形状游戏测试中取得了显著改善。这些结果支持了QQQ干预措施的可行性及其在提高转换能力方面的有效性，证实了生态干预措施在增强学龄前儿童特定执行功能组成部分方面的有用性。
