Designing Social Robots for Inclusive Child Wellbeing Assessment: Insights from Communities Supporting Developmental Language Disorder and Forced Migration

This paper explores how social robots might support wellbeing assessment for children who face communication barriers, focusing on Developmental Language Disorder and forced-migration backgrounds. The researchers used candidate child–robot activities as design probes in focus groups with parents and professionals, then applied thematic analysis. Reported themes concern the robot’s role and capabilities, interaction dynamics, individual differences, child agency, and population-specific needs shaped by communication abilities and lived experience. The work offers ethical and inclusive design recommendations, but the supplied abstract provides no sample size, robot platform, quantitative evaluation, or evidence of clinical effectiveness.