Dr. Simonetta D’Amico currently serves as a full professor at the University of L’Aquila, teaching developmental psychology and psychopathological development of language and communication. Also, she is the Director of Socio-Cognitive Processes in the Life-Span Laboratory at the University of L’Aquila. Dr. Simonetta D’Amico has several research interests: socio-cognitive development across the lifespan; the relationship between language skills and cognitive processes; language production and comprehension in adults in a cross-linguistic and cross-cultural model; creative thinking and decision-making development; risk and protection factors in developmental age concerning social skills and adaptive processes in emergency events; sustainable development; experimental and diagnostic tools suitable for education, research, and clinical settings. In addition, Dr. Simonetta D’Amico is the Founder member, and former President of CLASTA—Communication and Language Acquisition Studies in Typical and Atypical. She was a Population Association Member of the scientific committee of the Italian Consensus Conference on Developmental Language Disorder with CLASTA and FLI. During that time, she established profitable collaborations with colleagues from national and international universities and research centers and with psychologists with whom she has developed research projects. She has published several studies, books, and articles in national and international journals.