Co-speech gestures have a close semantic relationship to speech in adult conversation. In
typically developing children co-speech gestures which give additional information to …

Previous work leaves open the question of whether children with autism spectrum disorders
aged 6–12 years have delay in producing gestures compared to their typically developing …

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 …

Purpose The purpose of this study was to examine patterns of spontaneous gesture use in a
sample of adolescents with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Method Thirty-five adolescents …

Recent interest in gesture has led to an understanding of the development of gesture and
speech in typically developing young children. Research suggests that initially gesture and …

Co-speech gestures in autism spectrum disorder (ASD) are poorly understood. Historically,
all gestures were thought to be reduced in this social-communicative disorder; however …

Conversational or “co‐speech” gestures play an important role in communication, facilitating
turntaking, providing visuospatial information, clarifying subtleties of emphasis, and other …

The current paper provides empirical support for adults using co-speech gesturing with
children with and without early language delay. The discussion starts broad by showing that …

While well-represented on clinical measures, co-speech gesture production has never been
formally studied in autistic adults. Twenty-one verbally fluent autistic adults and 21 typically …

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