Detail Information
Publications
Early gesture predicts language delay in children with pre- or perinatal brain lesionsEve Sauer
Department of Psychology, University of Chicago, 5848 South University Avenue, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
Child Dev 81:528-39. 2010..Gesture was thus an early marker of which children with early unilateral lesions would eventually experience language delay, suggesting that gesture is a promising diagnostic tool for persistent delay...
Young children use their hands to tell their mothers what to saySusan Goldin-Meadow
Department of Psychology, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
Dev Sci 10:778-85. 2007..Gesture thus offers a mechanism by which children can point out their thoughts to mothers, who then calibrate their speech to those thoughts, and potentially facilitate language-learning...
