A specialist in children's literature, she was considered the protégé and inheritor of the pedagogical work of Rosario Vera Peñaloza [es].

[4] It was home to a museum created by Rosario Vera Peñaloza [es], which Salotti worked to restructure and enhance.

[5] She instilled in teachers and students the practice of reading aloud, and oral narration as a contribution to the teaching of language.

[2] On 10 May 1965, Salotti founded the SUMMA Institute in the Buenos Aires neighborhood of Caballito, together with Dora Pastoriza de Etchebarne.

[1] She was also the founding president of the Argentine chapter of the International Board on Books for Young People (IBBY),[6][10] and a numerary of the American Cultural Union.