How do parents of school-aged children respond to their children’s extending gestures?
Gesture plays an important role in early language development as how parents respond to their children’s gestures may help to facilitate language acquisition. Less is known about whether parental responses facilitate language learning later in childhood and whether responses vary depending on childr...
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2019
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| author | Wray, C Saunders, N Norbury, C |
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| description | Gesture plays an important role in early language development as how parents respond to their children’s gestures may help to facilitate language acquisition. Less is known about whether parental responses facilitate language learning later in childhood and whether responses vary depending on children’s language ability. This study explored parental responses to extending gestures in a sample of school-aged children (aged 6-8years) with developmental language disorder, low-language and educational concerns, and typically developing children. Overall there were no group differences in the types of responses parents provided to extending gestures. Parents predominantly responded with positive feedback but also displayed moderate proportions of verbal translations and clarification requests. Within the DLD group, the proportion of parent translations was negatively associated with language ability. Our finding suggests that parent responses serve to enhance communication and engage children in tasks, but there is limited evidence that they support new language learning at this age. |
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| spelling | oxford-uuid:ffe8d1ae-35ba-4bdc-a91d-bcadf8b5f8372022-03-27T13:48:34ZHow do parents of school-aged children respond to their children’s extending gestures?Journal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_dcae04bcuuid:ffe8d1ae-35ba-4bdc-a91d-bcadf8b5f837Symplectic Elements at OxfordCambridge University Press2019Wray, CSaunders, NNorbury, CGesture plays an important role in early language development as how parents respond to their children’s gestures may help to facilitate language acquisition. Less is known about whether parental responses facilitate language learning later in childhood and whether responses vary depending on children’s language ability. This study explored parental responses to extending gestures in a sample of school-aged children (aged 6-8years) with developmental language disorder, low-language and educational concerns, and typically developing children. Overall there were no group differences in the types of responses parents provided to extending gestures. Parents predominantly responded with positive feedback but also displayed moderate proportions of verbal translations and clarification requests. Within the DLD group, the proportion of parent translations was negatively associated with language ability. Our finding suggests that parent responses serve to enhance communication and engage children in tasks, but there is limited evidence that they support new language learning at this age. |
| spellingShingle | Wray, C Saunders, N Norbury, C How do parents of school-aged children respond to their children’s extending gestures? |
| title | How do parents of school-aged children respond to their children’s extending gestures? |
| title_full | How do parents of school-aged children respond to their children’s extending gestures? |
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| title_full_unstemmed | How do parents of school-aged children respond to their children’s extending gestures? |
| title_short | How do parents of school-aged children respond to their children’s extending gestures? |
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