Does autism affect gesturing during parent-child interactions in the early school years?

摘要

Background: Young children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) have been shown to differ from typically developing (TD) children in their production of gesture, as well as the relationship between gesture and the content of their speech. In this study, we asked whether older children with ASD continue to differ from TD children in the types of gestures and gesture-speech combinations that they produce, and whether these differences reflect differences in parental gesture input.