16 Gestures By 16 Months
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Research has found the development of gestures is a language predictor. From 9-16 months, children should be learning at least two additional gestures per month. Here is a helpful guide of typical gestures during this time.
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This can be used as a guide for therapists or handout for caregivers.
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Description
Research has found the development of gestures is a language predictor. From 9-16 months, children should be learning at least two additional gestures per month. Here is a helpful guide of typical gestures during this time.
Strategies and techniques
This can be used as a guide for therapists or handout for caregivers.
License
Focus areas
- OT -> Augmentative and Alternative Communication -> Accessibility
- OT -> Augmentative and Alternative Communication -> Self-advocacy
- ST -> Expressive Language -> Gestures, Signs, and Facial Cues
- ST -> Hearing -> Gestures, Signs, and Facial Cues
- ST -> Intelligibility -> Gestures, Signs, and Facial Cues
- ST -> Pragmatics / Social Skills / Life Skills -> Gestures, Signs, and Facial Cues
- FT -> Augmentative and Alternative Communication -> Unaided Communication
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Evidence based practice citations
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Early Communicative Gestures Prospectively Predict Language Development and Executive Function In Early Childhood. Child Development.
Author(s): Kuhn, L. J., Willoughby, M. T., Wilbourn, M. P....
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