Intervention
neurodevelopmental disorders, brain damage
Lumosity Cognitive Training™ was the CCT used for this studyDescription of the training games.The training was performed by children at home, without the direct monitoring of the clinician. A weekly phone-based contact with a clinician member of the research staff was scheduled, with the solely aim of sustaining training adherence and motivation and recording the reasons of any eventual drop-outs; no feedback on tasks execution was provided at any time. A researcher not involved in testing received, through an automatic e-mail from the Lumosity online platform, a weekly report of the scores obtained at each game by each participant. By means of this report, it was also possible to estimate the number of sessions completed by the participant.Participants could access the program by inserting a personal email and password, which were provided to them by the research staff during the preliminary demonstration session. The average daily training duration was approximatively 20 min. A total of 40 sessions had to be performed by each participant, with a commitment of 5 times per week in a total period of 8 weeks. The intensity and duration of this version of Lumosity Cognitive Training were chosen on the basis of the characteristics of previous CCT programs for pediatric populations with brain damage or neurodevelopmental disorders