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Peer reviewedThal, Donna; Bates, Elizabeth – Journal of Speech and Hearing Research, 1988
The relationship between language and symbolic gesture was studied in nine children (ages 18-32 months) who were in the lowest 10 percent for language production for their age. Subjects performed like language-matched controls on a lexical production task. On a syntax-related task, they performed like age-matched and significantly better than…
Descriptors: Child Development, Delayed Speech, Language Acquisition, Nonverbal Communication
