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Getting to the Point: Examining Associations Between Adult Interactional Strategies and Infant Gestures

Year: 2024

Type: article

Abstract: The developmental importance of infant gesture use is well established, yet few investigations examine what adults can do to facilitate infant gestures. We used an event lag with pauses sequential analysis to generate an index of association between each adult interactional strategy and deictic infant gesture during ten-minute play interactions with 27 typically developing infants (11-25 months) and trained interventionists. We ran correlations to examine potential relationships between the sequential associations, child age, and language scores. Results indicated modeling gestures with a short phrase increased the momentary likelihood of infant gestures overall and points specifically, whereas modeling short phrases without gestures decreased the momentary likelihood of any infant gesture.

Source: Infancy

DOI: 10.1111/infa.12636

Authors: Mollie Romano, Blair P. Lloyd, Kelsey Lucca, Johanna Eugenio

Institutions: Florida State University, Vanderbilt University, Arizona State University

Language: English

Topic: Language Development and Disorders

Subfield: Developmental and Educational Psychology

Field: Psychology

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: bronze

OpenAlex ID: W4404567877

FWCI: 0.773

Cites: 60

Cited by: 1

Related to: 10