Children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) demonstrate impairments in social interaction
and communication, and in repetitive/stereotypical behaviors. The degree to which children …

Speakers produce both referential gestures, which depict properties of a referent, and non-
referential gestures, which lack semantic content. While a large number of studies have …

Although research has shown that adults can benefit from the presence of beat gestures in
word recall tasks, studies have failed to conclusively generalize these findings to preschool …

Age‐related changes are observed in the speech and gestures of neurotypical individuals.
Older adults are more disfluent in speech and use fewer representational gestures (eg …

In infancy, use of gesture and the ability to engage in joint attention with others both predict
later language development. Conceptually, gesture and joint attention abilities may reflect a …

The present article describes two studies that examine the impact of teaching students to
use gesture to support spatial thinking in the Science, Technology, Engineering, and …

Instructors often show rhythmic movements with speech in video lectures. However, the
effects of these movements have not been tested in video lectures with an instructor and …

The present study investigated the degree to which an infants' use of simultaneous gesture–
speech combinations during controlled social interactions predicts later language …

Abstract words refer to concepts that cannot be directly experienced through our senses (eg
truth, morality). How we ground the meanings of abstract words is one of the deepest …

Abstract Nouns form the first building blocks of children's language but are not consistently
modified by other words until around 2.5 years of age. Before then, children often combine …