PUBLICATIONS

Our research is regularly published in scientific journals and presented at international conferences.

2022

2021

The Interrelation between Multilingualism, Social Skills, and Parent-Child Relationship on Academic Performance in ASD. [pdf]

Maïte Franco, Georges Steffgen, Andreia P. Costa

Contribution at the Luxembourg Educational Research Association’s (LuxERA) Emerging Researchers Conference

The link between emotion regulation abilities in children with ASD and depressive symptomatology in their parents. [pdf]

Andreia P. Costa, Katharina Schneider, Georges Steffgen

Poster presented at the Virtual Annual Meeting of the International Society for Autism Research (INSAR)

Social skills in multilingual children with autism. [pdf]

Maïte Franco, Georges Steffgen, Andreia P. Costa

Poster presented at the Virtual Annual Meeting of the International Society for Autism Research (INSAR) 

Death by suicide among people with autism: beyond zebrafish. [pdf]

Mikle South, Andreia P. Costa, Carly McMorris

Invited commentary published in JAMA Network Open 

Introducing the COVID-19 crisis special education needs coping survey. [pdf]

Dukes, DanielVan Herwegen, JoAlessandri, MichaelAl Nemary, FaisalAmani Rad, JamalBanta Lavenex, PamelaBolshakov, NikitaBölte, SvenBuffle, PaulinaYing Cai, RuCampos, RuthChirita, AdelaCosta, Andreia P.Costanzo, Florianadi Poi, GionaDes Portes, VincentFaivre, LaurenceFamelart, NawelleFisher, MarisaGamaiunova, LiudmilaGiannadou, AikaterinaGupta, RashmiHanley, Mary T.Hardan, Antonio Y.Houdayer, FrançoiseHrnčířová, LenkaHugon, AnneKlein-Tasman, Bonita P.Kovani, PanagiotaLavenex, PierreLibove, RobinMalik, SupriyaMari, FrancescaMartínez-Castilla,, PastoraMenghini, DenyMeuleman, BenNuske, Heather J.Palikara, OlympiaPapageorgiou, AthinaPapon, AnoukPegg, RobinPoustka, LuiseProsetzky, IngolfRenieri, AlessandraReza Pouretemad, HamidRhodes, SineadRiby, DeborahRossi, MassimilianoSadeghi, SaeidStallmann, LinaSquillaci, MyriamSu, XueyunTai, Hungtzu (Claire)Tran, MichelTreichel, NoémieTynan, FionnualaUljarević, MirkoVan Hecke, AmyVeiga, GuidaVerloes, AlainVicari, StefanoWerneck-Rohrer, SonjaZander, EricSamson, Andrea C.

Preprint deposited on PsyArXiv Preprints

2020

Suicidality in adults with autism spectrum disorder: The role of depressive symptomatology, alexithymia, and antidepressants. [pdf]

Andreia P. Costa, Cathia Loor, Georges Steffgen

Article published in the Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders 

Effects of emotional music on facial emotion recognition in children with autism spectrum disorder. [pdf]

Gary Wagener, Madeleine Berning, Andreia P. Costa, Georges Steffgen, André Melzer

Article published in the Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders 

2019

Mental health benefits of a robot-mediated emotional ability training for children with autism: An exploratory study.

Andreia P. Costa, Lena Kirsten, Louise Charpiot, Georges Steffgen

Poster presented in Annual Meeting of the International Society for Autism Research (INSAR), Montreal, Canada 

Suicidality in adults with autism spectrum disorder: The role of depression and alexithymia. [pdf]

Andreia P. Costa, Cathia Loor, Georges Steffgen

Poster presented in Annual Meeting of the International Society for Autism Research (INSAR), Montreal, Canada 

The role of alexithymia in parent-child interaction and in the emotional ability of children with autism spectrum disorder. [pdf]

Andreia P. Costa, Georges Steffgen, Claus Vögele

Article published in Autism Research 

2018

A comparison between a person and a robot in the attention, imitation, and repetitive and stereotypical behaviors of children with autism spectrum disorder. [pdf]

Andreia P. Costa, Louise Charpiot, Francisco Lera, Pouyan Ziafati, Aida Nazarikhorram, Leon van der Torre, Georges Steffgen

Paper published in Proceedings of the Workshop on Social human-robot interaction of human-care service robots at the Human Robot Interaction (HRI), Chicago, USA 

More Attention and Less Repetitive and Stereotyped Behaviors using a Robot with Children with Autism. [pdf]

Andreia P. Costa, Louise Charpiot, Francisco Lera, Pouyan Ziafati, Aida Nazarikhorram, Leon van der Torre, Georges Steffgen

Paper published in Proceedings of the 2018 IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (ROMAN) 

The link between focused attention and emotion regulation ability in children with ASD.

Andreia P. Costa, Céline Couronne, Georges Steffgen

Poster presented in Annual Meeting of the International Society for Autism Research (INSAR), Rotterdam, The Netherlands 

Attitudes of Children with Autism towards Robots: An Exploratory Study. [pdf]

Andreia P. Costa, Tonie Schweich, Louise Charpiot, Georges Steffgen

Paper published in Proceedings of the ACM SIGCHI IDC2018 Workshop on Robotics for Children and Child-Robot Interaction (2018, June). 

Luxembourg and Autism. [pdf]

Andreia P. Costa, Georges Steffgen

Article published in Encyclopedia of Autism Spectrum Disorders 

2017

Contributors to well-being and stress in parents of children with autism spectrum disorder. [pdf]

Andreia P. Costa, Georges Steffgen, Dieter Ferring

Article published in Research in Autism Spectrum Disorders 

Socially assistive robots for teaching emotional abilities to children with autism spectrum disorder. [pdf]

Andreia P. Costa, Georges Steffgen, Francisco Lera, Aida Nazarikhorram, Pouyan Ziafati

Article published in Proceedings of the 3rd workshop Child-Robot Interaction at Human-Robots-Interaction (HRI) 

Expressive incoherence and alexithymia in autism spectrum disorder. [pdf]

Andreia P. Costa, Georges Steffgen, Andrea Samson

Article published in Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders 

The role of parents in children’s emotional ability.

Andreia P. Costa, Georges Steffgen, Claus Vögele

Poster presented in International Conference of Psychological Science, Vienna, Austria 

2016