Olga Capirci currently is a researcher at the CNR Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies and she coordinates the Gesture, Language Acquisition and Developmental Disorders  (GLADD) Research Unit. Her research focuses on the role of gestures during different stages of development (from the first years of life until school age), within different contexts of interaction and cognitive tasks (e.g. interaction with caregivers, lexical naming tasks, narration tasks) and in different populations. Most of her work to date has been dedicated to developmental psychology and neuropsychology, with a particular emphasis on the study of the processes implied in the elaboration, acquisition and use of communication and language in different modalities of expression – with particular reference to the gestural one – and in children with typical and atypical development (e.g. deafness, Williams syndrome). Recently her research has been focused on Autism Spectrum Disorders and in particular on: verbal and non-verbal modalities of interaction  between parents and children with ASD; narrative competence in a multimodal perspective; the analysis of motor behaviour during gesture production using novel non-obtrusive wearable technologies. She has established profitable collaborations with colleagues from national and international Universities, Research Centres and with child neuropsychiatrics, psychologists and rehabilitation therapists.She is the author or co-author of many national and international publications in several fields: psycholinguistics, developmental psychology, and neuropsychology.