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Allison Fors | Speech Therapy
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“Children gesture before they begin to speak and continue gesturing throughout the language learning process...children’s early gestures not only precede, but also predict, the onset of a number of linguistic milestones–nouns, nominal constituents, simple and complex sentences. Gesturing may thus play a causal role in language learning, and could do so in two ways: (1) Gesturing gives children the opportunity to practice expressing ideas in a preverbal form. (2) A child’s gestures offer parents and other communication partners insight into the child’s linguistic level, thus giving the partners the opportunity to provide input tailored to that level.” Goldin-Meadow, S. How gesture helps children learn language. (2014) Some caregivers worry that we are giving up on verbal language when we begin using gestures or other non-verbal forms of communication. But gestures can be an amazing stepping stone to words. They seem to help the concept of communication click for a child...If I do this, then I get what I want/need! Have you found this to be the true? #earlyintervention #eislp #speechtherapy #slpeeps #ashaigers #slpa #speechdelaykids #speechdelay #languagedelay