The repertoire and timing of gestures accompanying speech were compared in children with
specific language impairment (SLI), aged 5—10 years, in typically developing peers (CA) …

Children understand gesture+ speech combinations in which a deictic gesture adds new
information to the accompanying speech by age 1; 6 (Morford & Goldin-Meadow …

Purpose The aim of this study was to determine whether children with language impairment
(LI) use gesture to compensate for their language difficulties. Method The present study …

This study explores the role that gesture plays in the earliest stages of language learning.
We describe how one-word speakers use gesture in combination with speech in their …

Background Previous research suggests that speakers are especially likely to produce
manual communicative gestures when they have relative ease in thinking about the spatial …

Background: Over the past decades the links between gesture and language have become
intensively studied. For example, the emergence of requesting and commenting gestures …

The relationship between language and symbolic gesture was studied in a group of young
children who were in the lowest 10% for language production for their age based on …

Children, even at the one-word stage of language development, spontaneously produce
gestures along with their speech, just as adults do. Although there appears to be a brief …

Children with specific language impairment (SLI) have difficulties with spoken language.
However, some recent research suggests that these impairments reflect underlying cognitive …

The gesture systems developed by 10 deaf children, each incapable of acquiring a
conventional spoken language naturally and not exposed to a conventional manual …