Conversational gestures in autism spectrum disorders: asynchrony but not decreased frequency.
Published in Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism Research • Dec 1, 2010
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Authors:,
Ashley de Marchena
Inge-Marie Eigsti
Abstract
Conversational or "co-speech" gestures play an important role in communication, facilitating turntaking, providing visuospatial information, clarifying subtleties of emphasis, and other pragmatic cues. Consistent with other pragmatic language deficits, individuals with autism spectrum disorders (ASD...
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