Children who have not developed speech tend to use gestures to communicate. Since gestures are not encouraged and suppressed in the Indian traditional context while speaking, this study focused on profiling the developing gestures in children to explore whether they use the gestures before development of speech. Eight normally developing…

A study involving 31 Indian families with a child (ages 3-16) with mental retardation found expressed emotion toward the child predicted a high level of burden among the caregivers. Age of child and family income significant in the univariate analysis were also clinically associated with burden in a developing country. (Contains references.)…