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Same or different: Common pathways of behavioral biomarkers in infants and children with neurodevelopmental disorders?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 April 2017

Peter B. Marschik ,
Dajie Zhang ,
Gianluca Esposito ,
Sven Bölte ,
Christa Einspieler  and
Jeff Sigafoos
Peter B. Marschik
Affiliation:
Center of Neurodevelopmental Disorders (KIND), Department of Women's and Children's Health, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden. peter.marschik@ki.se sven.bolte@ki.se www.ki.se/kind iDN, interdisciplinary Developmental Neuroscience, Institute of Physiology, Medical University of Graz, 8010 Graz, Austria. peter.marschik@medunigraz.at dajie.marschik@medunigraz.at christa.einspieler@medunigraz.at www.idn-research.org
Dajie Zhang
Affiliation:
iDN, interdisciplinary Developmental Neuroscience, Institute of Physiology, Medical University of Graz, 8010 Graz, Austria. peter.marschik@medunigraz.at dajie.marschik@medunigraz.at christa.einspieler@medunigraz.at www.idn-research.org
Gianluca Esposito
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology and Cognitive Science, University of Trento, Rovereto (TN), Italy. gianluca.esposito@unitn.it http://abp.dipsco.unitn.it Division of Psychology, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. gianluca.esposito@ntu.edu.sg https://blogs.ntu.edu.sg/sanlab/
Sven Bölte
Affiliation:
Center of Neurodevelopmental Disorders (KIND), Department of Women's and Children's Health, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden. peter.marschik@ki.se sven.bolte@ki.se www.ki.se/kind
Christa Einspieler
Affiliation:
iDN, interdisciplinary Developmental Neuroscience, Institute of Physiology, Medical University of Graz, 8010 Graz, Austria. peter.marschik@medunigraz.at dajie.marschik@medunigraz.at christa.einspieler@medunigraz.at www.idn-research.org
Jeff Sigafoos
Affiliation:
School of Education, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. jeff.sigafoos@vuw.ac.nz http://www.victoria.ac.nz/education/about/staff/ed-psy-ped-staff/jeff-sigafoos
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Abstract

The extent to which early motor patterns represent antecedents to later communicative functions, and the emergence of gesture and/or sign as potential communicative acts in neurodevelopmental disorders (NDDs), are research questions that have received recent attention. It is important to keep in mind that different NDDs have different neurological underpinnings, with correspondingly different implications for their conceptualization, detection, and treatment.

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 40 , 2017 , e64
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