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Gesture and Language Trajectories in Early Development: An Overview From the Autism Spectrum Disorder Perspective

The well-documented gesture-language relation in typical communicative development (TD) remains understudied in autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Research on early communication skills shows that gesture production is a strong predictor of language in TD, but little is known about the association betw...

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Autores principales: Ramos-Cabo, Sara, Vulchanov, Valentin, Vulchanova, Mila
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6546811/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31191403
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.01211
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author Ramos-Cabo, Sara
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description The well-documented gesture-language relation in typical communicative development (TD) remains understudied in autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Research on early communication skills shows that gesture production is a strong predictor of language in TD, but little is known about the association between gestures and language in ASD. This review focuses on exploring this relation by addressing two topics: the reliability of gestures as predictor of language competences in ASD and the types of potential differences (quantitative, qualitative, or both) in the gesture-language trajectory in children on the autism spectrum compared to typically developing children. We find evidence that gesture production is indeed a reliable predictor of early communicative skills and that both quantitative and qualitative differences have been established in research in the development of verbal and non-verbal communication skills in ASD, with lower gesture rates at the quantitative level, and a trajectory that starts deviating from the TD trajectory only at some point after the first year of life.
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spelling pubmed-65468112019-06-12 Gesture and Language Trajectories in Early Development: An Overview From the Autism Spectrum Disorder Perspective Ramos-Cabo, Sara Vulchanov, Valentin Vulchanova, Mila Front Psychol Psychology The well-documented gesture-language relation in typical communicative development (TD) remains understudied in autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Research on early communication skills shows that gesture production is a strong predictor of language in TD, but little is known about the association between gestures and language in ASD. This review focuses on exploring this relation by addressing two topics: the reliability of gestures as predictor of language competences in ASD and the types of potential differences (quantitative, qualitative, or both) in the gesture-language trajectory in children on the autism spectrum compared to typically developing children. We find evidence that gesture production is indeed a reliable predictor of early communicative skills and that both quantitative and qualitative differences have been established in research in the development of verbal and non-verbal communication skills in ASD, with lower gesture rates at the quantitative level, and a trajectory that starts deviating from the TD trajectory only at some point after the first year of life. Frontiers Media S.A. 2019-05-28 /pmc/articles/PMC6546811/ /pubmed/31191403 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.01211 Text en Copyright © 2019 Ramos-Cabo, Vulchanov and Vulchanova. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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Gesture and Language Trajectories in Early Development: An Overview From the Autism Spectrum Disorder Perspective
title Gesture and Language Trajectories in Early Development: An Overview From the Autism Spectrum Disorder Perspective
title_full Gesture and Language Trajectories in Early Development: An Overview From the Autism Spectrum Disorder Perspective
title_fullStr Gesture and Language Trajectories in Early Development: An Overview From the Autism Spectrum Disorder Perspective
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title_short Gesture and Language Trajectories in Early Development: An Overview From the Autism Spectrum Disorder Perspective
title_sort gesture and language trajectories in early development: an overview from the autism spectrum disorder perspective
topic Psychology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6546811/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31191403
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.01211
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