Parent-child gesture use during problem solving in autistic spectrum disorder

Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders

Volumn 44, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 1946-1958

  Medeiros, Kristen ^a   Winsler, Adam ^b  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Autism spectrum disorder; Gesture; Parent child interaction; Receptive communication

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ASPERGER SYNDROME; AUTISM; BEAT GESTURE; CHILD; CHILD PARENT RELATION; CODING; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVENTIONAL GESTURE; DEICTIC GESTURE; FEMALE; GESTURE; HUMAN; ICONIC GESTURE; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LANGUAGE TEST; LINGUISTICS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METAPHORIC GESTURE; PEABODY PICTURE VOCABULARY TEST; PERVASIVE DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDER NOT OTHERWISE SPECIFIED; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBLEM SOLVING; TASK PERFORMANCE; TOWER OF HANOI REVISED TEST;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT DISORDERS, PERVASIVE; CHILD LANGUAGE; FEMALE; GESTURES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PARENT-CHILD RELATIONS; PARENTS; PROBLEM SOLVING; VOCABULARY;

EID: 84906939603     PISSN: 01623257     EISSN: 15733432     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10803-014-2069-y     Document Type: Article

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