Hands Shaping Communication: From Gestures to Signs

Sparaci, Laura; Volterra, Virginia

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-66881-9_3

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“…This aspect is relevant because it has been suggested that gestures, as behaviors that precede and prepare for the emergence of verbal language, are important indicators of a prelinguistic stage (Farkas 2007a(Farkas , 2009Goodwyn et al 2000;Volterra et al 2005). Indeed, after speech emerges, gestures continue to have a role in language, as well as thinking and learning processes (Kang and Tversky 2016;Robutti et al 2022;Sparaci and Volterra 2017;Volterra et al 2018).…”

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“…In this regard, an interplay between gestures and spoken words long after speech has emerged has been described. Thus, gestures are considered as shaping spoken communication, which is considered from a multimodal point of view (Sparaci and Volterra 2017;Volterra et al 2018). This is related to a multimodal conception of thinking.…”

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An Early Intervention in Gestural Communication in Chilean Children from Psychosocially At-Risk Backgrounds and Its Impact on Language Skills at 18 Months Old

Farkas

2024

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The emergence of symbolic gestures is a solid milestone in early childhood development. Interventions that intentionally promote them have contributed to children’s language, cognitive, and socioemotional development. However, these studies have mainly been conducted in the USA with middle-SES families, and such research has considerably decreased in recent years. This study aimed to assess the effects of an intentional intervention for promoting symbolic gestures in the expressive and comprehensive language of Chilean children who were aged 18 months. Sixty-nine highly psychosocially at-risk children were assessed at 5–9 months and then at 18 months. Teachers from half of the nurseries involved in the study received the intervention. The assessment included a report on the children’s gestural vocabulary, the CDI, and the language scale of BSID-III. The results showed that the children in the intervention group had a significantly greater gestural vocabulary at 18 months and they performed better in their expressive language than the children in the control group did. Additionally, this study aimed to analyze if this intervention affected children differentially in consideration of their language development (adequate and at-risk). The results showed that children with adequate development improved their language when they received the intervention, but those from the at-risk group did not. The implications of these results for the design of interventions at an early age are discussed while considering children from different sociocultural backgrounds and with different language development.

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An Early Intervention in Gestural Communication in Chilean Children from Psychosocially At-Risk Backgrounds and Its Impact on Language Skills at 18 Months Old

Farkas

2024

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The Orchestration of Bodies and Artifacts in French Family Dinners

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Boutet

2024

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Profiles of Early Actions and Gestures in Infants With an Older Sibling With Autism Spectrum Disorder

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Northrup

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J Speech Lang Hear Res

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Purpose Infants with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) produce fewer play actions and gestures than neurotypical infants (e.g., Mastrogiuseppe et al., 2015; Veness et al., 2012; Zwaigenbaum et al., 2005). The purpose of this study was to investigate whether different “types” of actions and gestures are more or less likely to develop atypically in ASD. Method We examined eight types of actions and gestures longitudinally from ages 8 to 14 months in 80 infants with a heightened risk for developing ASD by virtue of having an affected older sibling (high risk [HR]; e.g., Ozonoff et al., 2011) and 25 infants with no such familial risk (low risk). Data were collected using the MacArthur–Bates Communicative Development Inventories (Fenson et al., 1994, 1993). Results HR infants later diagnosed with ASD showed less growth across nearly all types of actions and gestures compared to the low-risk comparison group. Importantly, these HR infants who were later diagnosed with ASD also exhibited reduced growth in frequent deictic gestures and in actions that involve object manipulation relative to HR infants with non-ASD language delay. Conclusions During infancy, it is challenging for clinicians to distinguish ASD from other early communicative delays (e.g., Camarata, 2014). Our results indicate that deictic gestures, as well as actions and gestures involving object manipulation, may be useful targets of surveillance strategies for HR infants and could support early detection efforts for ASD.

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Hands Shaping Communication: From Gestures to Signs

Cited by 13 publications

References 71 publications

An Early Intervention in Gestural Communication in Chilean Children from Psychosocially At-Risk Backgrounds and Its Impact on Language Skills at 18 Months Old

An Early Intervention in Gestural Communication in Chilean Children from Psychosocially At-Risk Backgrounds and Its Impact on Language Skills at 18 Months Old

The Orchestration of Bodies and Artifacts in French Family Dinners

Profiles of Early Actions and Gestures in Infants With an Older Sibling With Autism Spectrum Disorder

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