An investigation into the relationship between Quality of pantomime gestures and visuospatial skills

Abstract

project number 12Z5119N -Cognitive skills and the gesture use and alignment in individuals with atypical development). We are very grateful to the FWO for their financial support. A special thank you to the children, parents, therapists, and teachers who made this study possible. There was no conflict of interest and there were no restrictions on the publication of results. The first author has full access to all the data in the study and takes responsibility for the integrity of the data and the accuracy of the data analysis.

Gesture–speech integration is related to vocabulary skills in children with developmental language disorder, Williams syndrome and typical development

“…Aiming to ensure that each excerpt coincided with the completion of a plot element, the length of the five excerpts varied, as follows in chronological order: 39, 26, 54, 78 and 20 s. After the participant had watched an excerpt, the researcher would say, ‘Tell me what happened, I'm really curious.’ The researcher encouraged participants to tell everything they had seen by using expectant pauses and general prompts such as ‘Did anything else happen?’ Notably, this narrative task was administered alongside other experimental gesture tasks that are discussed by Rombouts et al. (2020). Because the present task was the first gesture task in that procedure—the full procedure has been described in Rombouts et al.…”

“…Because the present task was the first gesture task in that procedure—the full procedure has been described in Rombouts et al. (2020)—performance could not have been influenced by the other gesture tasks.…”

“…The children's parents gave written informed consent and the participants gave oral assent. The present study is the second part of a larger study (see Rombouts et al, 2020, for the first part).…”

“…The researcher encouraged participants to tell everything they had seen by using expectant pauses and general prompts such as 'Did anything else happen?' Notably, this narrative task was administered alongside other experimental gesture tasks that are discussed by Rombouts et al (2020).…”