Background and aims Prior work has examined how children and adolescents with autism
spectrum disorder who are minimally verbal use their spoken language abilities during …

In this chapter, we present a survey of the current body of knowledge on the role of gesture
in the development of language by hearing and deaf children. Our goal is to demonstrate …

The aim of the present study was to evaluate relationships between early production of
gesture, gesture-plus-word combinations and transitional forms on successive lexical and …

Gestures are prevalent in communication and tightly linked to language and speech. As
such they can shed important light on issues of language development across the lifespan …

The gestures children produce predict the early stages of spoken language development.
Here we ask whether gesture is a global predictor of language learning, or whether …

The organization of gestures was examined in children's and adults' samples of consonant–
vowel–stop words differing in stop voicing. Children (5 and 7 years old) and adults produced …

Whether language/gesture correlations in early language development can be explained by
parallelism or comprehension mediation was examined. Study 1, parental report data for 95 …

Gestures and vocal elements interact from the early stages of language development, but
the role of this interaction in the language learning process is not yet completely understood …

The manual gestures that accompany speaking have been analysed in terms of their form,
their meaning, their role in the communicative act, and their timing with respect to the speech …

There is plenty of evidence that speech and gesture form a tightly integrated system, as
reflected in parallelisms in language production, comprehension, and development (;). Yet, it …