Infants who develop autism show smaller inventories of deictic and symbolic gestures at 12 months of age
Dennis Wu,
Jason J. Wolff,
Shruthi Ravi
et al.
Abstract:Gestures are an important social communication skill that infants and toddlers use to convey their thoughts, ideas, and intentions. Research suggests that early gesture use has important downstream impacts on developmental processes, such as language learning. However, autistic children are more likely to have challenges in their gestural development. The current study expands upon previous literature on the differences in gesture use between young autistic and non‐autistic toddlers by collecting data using a … Show more
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