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Dimitrova, Nevena; Mohr, Christine; Özçaliskan, Seyda; Adamson, Lauren B. – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2020
Children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) produce fewer deictic gestures, accompanied by delays/deviations in speech development, compared to typically-developing (TD) children. We ask whether children with ASD--like TD children--show right-hand preference in gesturing and whether right-handed gestures predict their vocabulary size in speech.…
Descriptors: Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Nonverbal Communication, Expressive Language
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Deckner, Deborah F.; Adamson, Lauren B.; Bakeman, Roger – Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, 2006
Fifty-five children and their mothers were studied longitudinally from 18 to 42 months to determine the effects of home literacy practices, children's interest in reading, and mothers' metalingual utterances during reading on children's expressive and receptive language development, letter knowledge, and knowledge of print concepts. At 27 months,…
Descriptors: Receptive Language, Mothers, Expressive Language, Language Acquisition