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Gesturing With An Injured Brain: How Gesture Helps Children With Early Brain Injury Learn Linguistic Constructions, Seyda Ozcaliskan, Susan C. Levine, Susan Goldin-Meadow
Gesturing With An Injured Brain: How Gesture Helps Children With Early Brain Injury Learn Linguistic Constructions, Seyda Ozcaliskan, Susan C. Levine, Susan Goldin-Meadow
Psychology Faculty Publications
Children with pre/perinatal unilateral brain lesions (PL) show remarkable plasticity for language development. Is this plasticity characterized by the same developmental trajectory that characterizes typically developing (TD) children, with gesture leading the way into speech ? We explored this question, comparing eleven children with PL – matched to thirty TD children on expressive vocabulary – in the second year of life. Children with PL showed similarities to TD children for simple but not complex sentence types. Children with PL produced simple sentences across gesture and speech several months before producing them entirely in speech, exhibiting parallel delays in both gesture+speech …
How Gesture Input Provides A Helping Hand To Language Development, Seyda Özçalışkan, Nevena Dimitrova
How Gesture Input Provides A Helping Hand To Language Development, Seyda Özçalışkan, Nevena Dimitrova
Psychology Faculty Publications
Children use gesture to refer to objects before they produce labels for these objects and gesture–speech combinations to convey semantic relations between objects before conveying sentences in speech—a trajectory that remains largely intact across children with different developmental profiles. Can the developmental changes that we observe in children be traced back to the gestural input that children receive from their parents? A review of previous work shows that parents provide models for their children for the types of gestures and gesture–speech combinations to produce, and do so by modifying their gestures to meet the communicative needs of their children. More …