The development of co-speech gesture in the communication of children with autism spectrum disorders.

Co-speech gestures have a close semantic relationship to speech in adult conversation. In typically developing children co-speech gestures which give additional information to speech facilitate the emergence of multi-word speech. A difficulty with integrating audio-visual information is known to exi...

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Published in:Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics Vol. 27; no. 12; pp. 922 - 940
Main Authors: Sowden, Hannah, Clegg, Judy, Perkins, Michael
Format: research tables/charts Journal Article
Published: Taylor & Francis Ltd Dec2013
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