While children with developmental language disorder or Williams syndrome appear to use
hand gestures to compensate for specific cognitive and communicative difficulties, they have …

Background Individuals with developmental language disorder or Williams syndrome are
reported to use more gestures than individuals with typical development. However, these …

Gestures have a central role in speaking and thinking about spatial information. The goal of
the present study is to examine the function of gestures in Williams Syndrome (WS), a …

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

Purpose People with aphasia (PWA) use different kinds of gesture spontaneously when they
communicate. Although there is evidence that the nature of the communicative task …

Purpose In this study, the authors examined the ability of preschoolers with Williams
syndrome (WS) or Down syndrome (DS) to infer communicative intent as expressed through …

Impairments of motor representation of actions have been reported as a core component of
autism spectrum disorders (ASD). Individuals with ASD have difficulties in a number of …

Pantomime production is commonly interpreted as reflecting tool-use-related cognitive
processes. Yet, in everyday life, pantomime deserves a communication function and the …

This thesis explored the potential that analysis of gesture may have in helping to understand
better the difficulties of children with specific language impairment and children with autism …

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 …