Ines Delzotto
Veruda Rehabilitation Centre, Pula
Ines Delzotto graduated from the Faculty of Education and Rehabilitation Sciences at the University of Zagreb, and works as a Master of Educational Rehabilitation at the Veruda Rehabilitation Centre in Pula, Croatia, where she founded the first Assistive Technology Laboratory in the country. The Veruda AT Lab provides assessment, training, rehabilitation, consultation, professional education, and the development of new assistive technology instruments.
She has 21 years of experience in assistive technology and augmentative and alternative communication (AT/AAC), working with children and adults with complex developmental and communication needs. Through her clinical and developmental work, she has contributed to the early establishment and ongoing development of assistive technology services and practices in Croatia.
She is a member of AAATE, ISAAC, RESNA, and the WHO GATE initiative. She specialised in assistive technology rehabilitation at IRCCS S. Maria Nascente / Fondazione Don Carlo Gnocchi in Milan, Italy, and completed a postgraduate specialisation in augmentative and alternative communication at Libera Università Maria Ss. Assunta in Rome, Italy.
In addition to her clinical work, she is actively involved in professional education, consulting, and the development of assistive technology service models and frameworks at the national level.
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Looking Beyond Access: What Eye Tracking Reveals About Visual Functioning in Children with Complex Needs
Vision plays a crucial role in communication, learning, and access to assistive technology, yet subtle visual processing difficulties often remain unrecognised in children with complex developmental profiles. Eye-tracking technology enables the objective observation of visual attention, gaze organisation, visual search patterns, as well as fixation stability, oculomotor efficiency, and visual endurance — aspects of visual functioning that are not accessible through conventional clinical assessment alone.
This presentation explores the use of eye tracking as a tool for functional analysis of visual behaviour within the context of assistive technology and AAC assessment. It will outline and, where relevant, illustrate how gaze-derived data can be interpreted to identify hidden visual barriers to communication and participation, and how these insights can inform more precise decision-making in selecting AAC strategies, learning supports, and access solutions.