[PDF] The Development Of Handedness Language And Gestures In Infants 9 13 And 20 Months Of Age eBook

Author : Jessica Rae Stewart
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Page : 542 pages
File Size : 14,76 MB
Release : 2016
Category : Electronic books
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Gestures are defined as intentional movements that are interpretable by other individuals, used for the purpose of communicating meaning (Watson, Crais, Baranek, Dykstra, & Wilson, 2013). There has been much research surrounding the development of gestures and the association between gesture and language development; however, a limited number of studies have examined frequency of gesture use and the association between frequency of gesture use and language. The present study investigated the frequency of gesture use and the relationship between frequency of gesture use and language in 54 typically developing children between the ages of 9 and 15 months. A mean total frequency and frequencies of behavior regulation, social interaction, and joint attention gestures were identified. Children were found to have lower frequencies of gesture use in unstructured settings when compared to structured settings and children in the 9-12 month age range had lower frequencies of gesture use than children in the 12-15 month age range. Additionally, in both age ranges, frequencies of specific types of gestures were found to explain significant proportions of variance in both receptive and expressive language scores. The results of this study provide fundamental knowledge pertaining to typical development and will aid in early detection of language delays. Knowledge of the mean frequencies and the relationship between these frequencies and language abilities may now be used to gauge a young child's current level of language functioning at an early age. This will allow for early detection of language delays so children can obtain necessary early intervention services, which is known to be associated with positive language outcomes.

Author : E. Kirk
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Page : pages
File Size : 24,83 MB
Release : 2010
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Infants' gestures feature prominently in early language. The observation that accomplishments in gesture presage verbal milestones prompted the question of whether encouraging infants to gesture would bring on language gains. This thesis addressed this question, remedying many of the shortfalls of previous research. In a yearlong longitudinal study, high-SES mother-infant dyads (n = 40) were randomly allocated to one of four conditions: Symbolic Gesture training, British Sign Language (BSL) training, Verbal training and a Non-Intervention Control group. Infants' language was continually assessed between the ages of 8 to 20 months to determine the impact of encouraged gesture on language development. With the exception of a small number of boys, encouraging gesture did not affect infants' language development. However, the expressive language of boys who started the study with a low language ability was improved by gesture. A gesture-training intervention was delivered to low-SES mothers at a Sure Start children's centre. Infants of mothers trained to gesture showed greater gains in their receptive and expressive vocabularies than infants of mothers who attended sessions aimed to improve general communication (without gesture instruction). Gesture helped reduce the discrepancy between the language abilities of infants from low and high-SES backgrounds. Qualitative investigations revealed how encouraging mothers to use gestures with their infants led to perceived wider, non-linguistic benefits. However, a comparison of maternal and infant stress scores revealed no difference between gesturing and non-gesturing mother-infant dyads. Infants, who because of biological and/or environmental factors have lower language abilities than their peers, stand to benefit from encouraged gesture in infancy. Through early intervention, gesture has the potential to reduce the disadvantage that children from lower-SES families face from impoverished language abilities. By changing the course of their early development, encouraged gesture could ultimately bring about lasting benefits.

Author : Jean-Marc Colletta
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 34,46 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027202583

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Brings together studies from language acquisition and developmental psychology. This title addresses topics such as: gesture use in prelinguistic infants with a focus on pointing, the relationship between gestures and lexical development in typically developing and deaf children and even how gesture can help to learn mathematics

Author : William B. Barr
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 1273 pages
File Size : 35,1 MB
Release : 2024-01-09
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0199765685

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This handbook is currently in development, with individual articles publishing online in advance of print publication. At this time, we cannot add information about unpublished articles in this handbook, however the table of contents will continue to grow as additional articles pass through the review process and are added to the site. Please note that the online publication date for this handbook is the date that the first article in the title was published online.

Author : Jeffrey J. Lockman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 1104 pages
File Size : 27,21 MB
Release : 2020-08-13
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 1108663001

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This multidisciplinary volume features many of the world's leading experts of infant development, who synthesize their research on infant learning and behaviour, while integrating perspectives across neuroscience, socio-cultural context, and policy. It offers an unparalleled overview of infant development across foundational areas such as prenatal development, brain development, epigenetics, physical growth, nutrition, cognition, language, attachment, and risk. The chapters present theoretical and empirical depth and rigor across specific domains of development, while highlighting reciprocal connections among brain, behavior, and social-cultural context. The handbook simultaneously educates, enriches, and encourages. It educates through detailed reviews of innovative methods and empirical foundations and enriches by considering the contexts of brain, culture, and policy. This cutting-edge volume establishes an agenda for future research and policy, and highlights research findings and application for advanced students, researchers, practitioners, and policy-makers with interests in understanding and promoting infant development.

Author : Sotaro Kita
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 20,10 MB
Release : 2003-06-20
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1135642133

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Pointing has captured the interest of scholars from various fields who study communication. However, ideas and findings have been scattered across diverse publications in different disciplines, and opportunities for interdisciplinary exchange have been very limited. The editor's aim is to provide an arena for such exchange by bringing together papers on pointing gestures from disciplines, such as developmental psychology, psycholinguistics, sign-language linguistics, linguistic anthropology, conversational analysis, and primatology. Questions raised by the editors include: *Do chimpanzees produce and comprehend pointing gestures in the same way as humans? *What are cross-cultural variations of pointing gestures? *In what sense are pointing gestures human universal? *What is the relationship between the development of pointing and language in children? *What linguistic roles do pointing gestures play in signed language? *Why do speakers sometimes point to seemingly empty space in front of them during conversation? *How do pointing gestures contribute to the unfolding of face-to-face interaction that involves objects in the environment? *What are the semiotic processes that relate what is pointed at and what is actually "meant" by the pointing gesture (the relationship between the two are often not as simple as one might think)? *Do pointing gestures facilitate the production of accompanying speech? The volume can be used as a required text in a course on gestural communication with multidisciplinary perspectives. It can also be used as a supplemental text in an advanced undergraduate or graduate course on interpersonal communication, cross-cultural communication, language development, and psychology of language.

Author : David J. Lewkowicz
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 12,59 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780863776816

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This volume is a comprehensive collection of critical essays on The Taming of the Shrew, and includes extensive discussions of the play's various printed versions and its theatrical productions. Aspinall has included only those essays that offer the most influential and controversial arguments surrounding the play. The issues discussed include gender, authority, female autonomy and unruliness, courtship and marriage, language and speech, and performance and theatricality.