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Gernsbacher, Morton Ann; Sauer, Eve A.; Geye, Heather M.; Schweigert, Emily K.; Goldsmith, H. Hill – Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 2008
Background: Spoken and gestural communication proficiency varies greatly among autistic individuals. Three studies examined the role of oral- and manual-motor skill in predicting autistic children's speech development. Methods: Study 1 investigated whether infant and toddler oral- and manual-motor skills predict middle childhood and teenage speech…
Descriptors: Toddlers, Infants, Psychomotor Skills, Autism
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Caselli, M. Cristina; Vicari, Stefano; Longobardi, Emiddia; Lami, Laura; Pizzoli, Claudia; Stella, Giacomo – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 1998
This study compared verbal comprehension, verbal production, and gesture production in 40 children (ages 10-49 months) with Down Syndrome (DS) and 40 normally developing children (ages 8-17 months). DS children showed a dissociation between verbal comprehension and production but synchronous development between vocal lexical comprehension and…
Descriptors: Downs Syndrome, Infants, Language Acquisition, Listening Comprehension