Publications

Authors:

Lavelli, Manuela; Majorano, Marinella

Title:

Spontaneous gesture production and lexical abilities in children with specific language impairment in a naming task

Year:

2016

Type of item:

Articolo in Rivista

Tipologia ANVUR:

Articolo su rivista

Language:

Inglese

Format:

Elettronico

Referee:

Sì

Name of journal:

JOURNAL OF SPEECH LANGUAGE AND HEARING RESEARCH

ISSN of journal:

1092-4388

N° Volume:

59

Number or Folder:

4

Page numbers:

784-796

Keyword:

Specific language impairment, gestural communication, lexical abilities, preschool-age children

Short description of contents:

Purpose: To investigate the role that co-speech gestures play in lexical production in preschool-age children with expressive specific language impairment (SLI).Method: Fifteen preschoolers with expressive SLI and two groups of typically developing children matched for chronological age (15, CATD-group) and for language abilities (15, LATD-group) completed a picture-naming task. The accuracy of the spoken answers (coded for types of correct and incorrect answers), the modality of expression (spoken and/or gestural), types of gestures, and semantic relationship between gestures and speech produced by children in the different groups were compared.Results: Children with SLI produced higher rates of phonological simplifications and unintelligible answers than CATD children, but lower rates of semantic errors than LATD children. They did not show a significant preference for spoken answers, as TD children did. Similarly to LATD children, they used gestures at higher rates than CATD, both deictic and representational, and both reinforcing the information conveyed in speech and adding correct information to co-occurring speech.Conclusions: These findings support the hypotheses that children with SLI rely on gestures for scaffolding their speech and do not have a clear preference for the spoken modality, as TD children do, and have implications for educational and clinical practice.

Web page:

http://jslhr.pubs.asha.org/article.aspx?articleid=2543694

Product ID:

90028

Handle IRIS:

11562/933040

Last Modified:

November 15, 2022

Bibliographic citation:

Lavelli, Manuela; Majorano, Marinella, Spontaneous gesture production and lexical abilities in children with specific language impairment in a naming task «JOURNAL OF SPEECH LANGUAGE AND HEARING RESEARCH» , vol. 59 , n. 4 , 2016 , pp. 784-796

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