Gestures in Storytelling by Preschool Chinese-Speaking Children With and Without Autism

Frontiers in Psychology

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Ying Huang¹  Wan-Yi Lam¹  Chun-Ho Cheng¹  Wing-Chee So¹ 

[1] Department of Educational Psychology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

关键词: gesture;    autism spectrum disorder;    storytelling;    emblem;    supplementary relation;   

DOI  :  10.3389/fpsyg.2020.573212

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: Frontiers

【 摘 要 】

Previous findings on gestural impairment in autism are inconsistent, while scant evidence came from Chinese-speaking individuals. In the present study, preschool Chinese-speaking children with typical development and with autism were asked to generate stories from a set of wordless Cartoon pictures. Two groups were matched in chronological age and language developmental age. Their speech and gestures were coded. Compared to children with typical development, children with autism produced fewer gestures and showed lower gesture rate. Besides, children with autism produced fewer emblems and fewer supplementary gestures compared to their TD peers. Unlike children with typical development, children with autism tend to produce emblems for reinforcing, rather than supplementing information not conveyed in speech. Results showed the impairments in integrating the cross-modal semantic information in children with autism.

【 授权许可】

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