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Bello, Arianna, Silvia Stefanini, Pasquale Rinaldi, Daniela Onofrio and Virginia Volterra 2020 Gestural symbolic strategies in children with Down syndrome Gesture 19:2/3, pp. 299–334 | Article

In early communicative development, children with Down syndrome (DS) make extensive use of gestures to compensate for articulatory difficulties. Here, we analyzed the symbolic strategies that underlie this gesture production, compared to that used by typically developing children. Using the same… read more

Stefanini, Silvia, Maria Cristina Caselli and Virginia Volterra 2011 Naming with gestures  in children with typical development and with Down syndrome Primate Communication and Human Language: Vocalisation, gestures, imitation and deixis in humans and non-humans, Vilain, Anne, Jean-Luc Schwartz, Christian Abry and Jacques Vauclair (eds.), pp. 155–172 | Article

Sansavini, Alessandra, Arianna Bello, AnnaLisa Guarini, Silvia Savini, Silvia Stefanini and Maria Cristina Caselli 2010 Early development of gestures, object-related-actions, word comprehension and word production, and their relationships in Italian infants: A longitudinal study Gesture 10:1, pp. 52–85 | Article

Our study aimed to examine longitudinally early development of gestures, object-actions (short for object-related-actions), word comprehension, and word production and their reciprocal relationships in typically developing infants. Twenty-two monolingual Italian infants were followed monthly from… read more

Stefanini, Silvia, Martina Recchia and Maria Cristina Caselli 2010 The relationship between spontaneous gesture production and spoken lexical ability in children with Down syndrome in a naming task Gestures in Language Development, Gullberg, Marianne and Kees de Bot (eds.), pp. 53–74 | Article

Stefanini, Silvia, Martina Recchia and Maria Cristina Caselli 2008 The relationship between spontaneous gesture production and spoken lexical ability in children with Down syndrome in a naming task Gestures in language development, Gullberg, Marianne and Kees de Bot (eds.), pp. 197–218 | Article

We examined the relationship between spontaneous gesture production and spoken lexical ability in children with Down syndrome (DS) in a naming task. Fifteen children with DS (3;8–8;3 years) were compared to 15 typically developing (TD) children matched for developmental age (DATD) (2;6–4;3 years… read more