Do Verbal Children with Autism Comprehend Gesture as Readily as Typically Developing Children?

Autor/inn/en	Dimitrova, Nevena; Özçaliskan, Seyda; Adamson, Lauren B.
Titel	Do Verbal Children with Autism Comprehend Gesture as Readily as Typically Developing Children?
Quelle	In: Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 47 (2017) 10, S.3267-3280 (14 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0162-3257
DOI	10.1007/s10803-017-3243-9
Schlagwörter	Autism; Pervasive Developmental Disorders; Preschool Children; Nonverbal Communication; Comprehension; Verbal Ability; Receptive Language; Speech Communication; Comparative Analysis + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Autismus; Pre-school age; Preschool age; Child; Children; Pre-school education; Preschool education; Vorschulalter; Kind; Kinder; Vorschulkind; Vorschulkinder; Vorschulerziehung; Vorschule; Non-verbal communication; Nonverbale Kommunikation; Verstehen; Verständnis; Mündliche Leistung; Rezeptive Kommunikationsfähigkeit
Abstract	Gesture comprehension remains understudied, particularly in children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) who have difficulties in gesture production. Using a novel gesture comprehension task, Study 1 examined how 2- to 4-year-old typically-developing (TD) children comprehend types of gestures and gesture-speech combinations, and showed better comprehension of deictic gestures and reinforcing gesture-speech combinations than iconic/conventional gestures and supplementary gesture-speech combinations at each age. Study 2 compared verbal children with ASD to TD children, comparable in receptive language ability, and showed similar patterns of comprehension in each group. Our results suggest that children comprehend deictic gestures and reinforcing gesture-speech combinations better than iconic/conventional gestures and supplementary combinations--a pattern that remains robust across different ages within TD children and children with ASD. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01