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Direct linkKirk, Elizabeth; Howlett, Neil; Pine, Karen J.; Fletcher, Ben C. – Child Development, 2013
Findings are presented from the first randomized control trial of the effects of encouraging symbolic gesture (or "baby sign") on infant language, following 40 infants from age 8 months to 20 months. Half of the mothers were trained to model a target set of gestures to their infants. Frequent measures were taken of infant language…
Descriptors: Infants, Sign Language, Language Acquisition, Child Language
