Hostname: page-component-77f85d65b8-t6st2 Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2026-03-29T20:46:56.137Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

Perspectives on gesture from autism spectrum disorder: Alterations in timing and function

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 April 2017

Inge-Marie Eigsti  and
Ashley de Marchena
Inge-Marie Eigsti
Affiliation:
Department of Psychological Sciences, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT 06269. inge-marie.eigsti@uconn.edu http://eigsti.psy.uconn.edu/
Ashley de Marchena
Affiliation:
The Center for Autism Research, Philadelphia, PA 19104. demarchenaa@email.chop.edu
Get access Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Abstract

The target article highlights the utility of new technology to study sign language and gesture. Research in special populations – specifically, individuals with autism spectrum disorder, ASD – may further illuminate sign/gesture similarities and differences and lead to a deeper understanding of the mechanisms of growth and change. Even verbally fluent speakers with ASD display distinctive qualities in sign and gesture.

Information

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 40 , 2017 , e53
Check for updates
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2017 

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

Article purchase

Temporarily unavailable

References

American Psychiatric Association (2013) Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders – fifth edition. American Psychiatric Association.Google Scholar
Asperger, H. (1944) Die “Autistichen Psychopathen” im Kindersalter. Archive für Psychiatrie und Nervenkrankheiten 117:76–136.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Attwood, A., Frith, U. & Hermelin, B. (1988) The understanding and use of interpersonal gestures by autistic and Down's syndrome children. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders 18(2):241–57.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Bello, A., Capirci, O. & Volterra, V. (2004) Lexical production in children with Williams syndrome: Spontaneous use of gesture in a naming task. Neuropsychologia 42(2):201–13.Google Scholar
Bhat, A. N., Galloway, J. C. & Landa, R. J. (2012) Relation between early motor delay and later communication delay in infants at risk for autism. Infant Behavior and Development 35(4):838–46.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Capps, L., Kehres, J. & Sigman, M. (1998) Conversational abilities among children with autism and children with developmental delays. Autism 2:325–44.Google Scholar
Colgan, S. E., Lanter, E., McComish, C., Watson, L. R., Crais, E. R. & Baranek, G. T. (2006) Analysis of social interaction gestures in infants with autism. Child Neuropsychology 12(4–5):307–19.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
de Marchena, A. & Eigsti, I. M. (2010) Conversational gestures in autism spectrum disorders: Asynchrony but not decreased frequency. Autism Research 3:311–22.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
de Marchena, A., & Eigsti, I. M. (2014) Context counts: The impact of social context on gesture rate in verbally fluent adolescents with autism spectrum disorder. Gesture 14:375–93.Google Scholar
Garcia-Perez, R. M., Lee, A. & Hobson, R. P. (2007) On intersubjective engagement in autism: A controlled study of nonverbal aspects of conversation. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders 37(7):1310–22.Google Scholar
Iverson, P. & Kuhl, P. K. (1995) Mapping the perceptual magnet effect for speech using signal detection theory and multidimensional scaling. Journal of Acoustical Society of America 97(1):553–62.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Kita, S. (2000) How representational gestures help speaking. In: Language and gesture, ed. McNeill, D., pp. 162–85. Cambridge University Press.Google Scholar
Lord, C., Rutter, M. & LeCouteur, A. (1994) Autism diagnostic interview-revised: A revised version of a diagnostic interview for caregivers of individuals with possible pervasive developmental disorders. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders 24:659–85.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Lord, C., Rutter, M., DiLavore, P. C., Risi, S., Gotham, K. & Bishop, S. (2012) Autism diagnostic observation schedule: ADOS-2. Western Psychological Services.Google Scholar
Luyster, R., Lopez, K. & Lord, C. (2007) Characterizing communicative development in children referred for autism spectrum disorders using the MacArthur-Bates Communicative Development Inventory (CDI). Journal of Child Language 34(3):623–54.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Mainela-Arnold, E., Evans, J. L. & Alibali, M. W. (2006) Understanding conservation delays in children with specific language impairment: Task representations revealed in speech and gesture. Journal of Speech, Language and Hearing Research 49(6):1267–79.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Morett, L. M., O'Hearn, K., Luna, B. & Ghuman, A. S. (2016) Altered gesture and speech production in ASD detract from in-person communicative quality. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders 46(3):998–1012.Google Scholar
Mundy, P. & Stella, J. (2000) Joint attention, social orienting, and nonverbal communication in autism. In: Autism spectrum disorders: A transactional developmental perspective, ed. Wetherby, A. M. & Prizant, B. M., pp. 55–77. Paul H. Brookes.Google Scholar
Mundy, P., Sigman, M., Ungerer, J. A. & Sherman, T. (1987) Nonverbal communication and play correlates of language development in autistic children. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders 17:349–64.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Nobe, S. (2000) Where do most spontaneous representational gestures actually occur with respect to speech? In: Language and gesture, ed. McNeill, D., pp. 186–98. Cambridge University Press.Google Scholar
Özyürek, A., Willems, R. M., Kita, S. & Hagoort, P. (2007) On-line integration of semantic information from speech and gesture: Insights from event-related brain potentials. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 19(4):605–16.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Parlade, M. V. & Iverson, J. M. (2015) The development of coordinated communication in infants at heightened risk for autism spectrum disorder. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders 45(7):2218–34. doi: 10.1007/s10803-015-2391-z.Google Scholar
Robins, D. L., Casagrande, K., Barton, M., Chen, C.-M. A., Dumont-Mathieu, T. & Fein, D. (2014) Validation of the modified checklist for autism in toddlers, revised with follow-up (M-CHAT-R/F). Pediatrics 133(1):37–45.Google Scholar
Shield, A., Meier, R. P. & Tager-Flusberg, H. (2015) The use of sign language pronouns by native-signing children with autism. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders 45(7):2128–45.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Stefanini, S., Caselli, M. C. & Volterra, V. (2007) Spoken and gestural production in a naming task by young children with Down syndrome. Brain and Language 101(3):208–21.Google Scholar
Thal, D., Tobias, S. & Morrison, D. (1991) Language and gesture in late talkers: A 1-year follow-up. Journal of Speech and Hearing Research 34(3):604–12.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Wetherby, A. M. & Prutting, C. A. (1984) Profiles of communicative and cognitive-social abilities in autistic children. Journal of Speech and Hearing Research 27(3):364–77.Google Scholar
Wing, L. (1981) Asperger's syndrome: A clinical account. Psychological Medicine 11:115–29.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed