The aim of this article is to provide clinicians and researchers a comprehensive overview of
the development and functions of gesture in childhood and in select populations with …

The gestures children use when they talk often reveal knowledge that they do not express in
speech. Gesture is particularly likely to reveal these unspoken thoughts when children are …

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

This chapter traces the burgeoning field of developmental gesture studies and examines the
emergence of gestures as visible utterances, adult responses to children's gestures, and the …

Purpose Comparing children's skills across and within domains of development has become
a standard in providing early intervention services. Profiling a child's strengths and …

To gain a full understanding of the steps children follow in acquiring language, researchers
must pay attention to their hands as well as their mouths–that is, to gesture. We first define …

Children who produce one word at a time often use gesture to supplement their speech,
turning a single word into an utterance that conveys a sentence-like meaning ('eat'+ point at …

In development, children often use gesture to communicate before they use words. The
question is whether these gestures merely precede language development or are …

There is a growing awareness that language and gesture are deeply intertwined in the
spontaneous expression of adults. Although some research suggests that children use …

Describes a 14-year program of research, the focus of which was the capacity of normal
infants to incorporate gestural symbols into their earliest expressive vocabularies. Explores …