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Research in Brief | November 2014
Hand Gestures Boost Spoken and Signed Language Learning
The ASHA Leader, November 2014, Vol. 19, 14. doi:10.1044/leader.RIB1.19112014.14
Spontaneous gestures can help children learn language—whether spoken or signed—according to a report published Sept. 19 in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B.
Author Susan Goldin-Meadow—the Beardsley Ruml Distinguished Service Professor in the University of Chicago Department of Psychology—examined how gesturing contributes to language-learning in hearing and in deaf children. “Children who can hear use gesture along with speech to communicate as they acquire spoken language,” she says. “Those gesture-plus-word combinations precede and predict the acquisition of word combinations that convey the same notions. The findings make it clear that children have an understanding of these notions before they are able to express them in speech.”
The findings also suggest gesture plays a role in learning for signers even though it is in the same communication modality as sign. Therefore, gesture doesn’t aid learners simply by providing a second modality—rather, gesture adds imagery to the categorical distinctions that form the core of both spoken and sign languages.
Goldin-Meadow also studied children who learned sign language from their parents. She found that they, too, use gestures as they use American Sign Language. These gestures predict learning, just like the gestures that accompany speech.
Finally, Goldin-Meadow looked at children whose hearing losses prevented them from learning spoken language, and whose hearing parents had not presented them with conventional sign language. These children use homemade gesture systems—called “homesign”—to communicate. Homesign shares properties with natural languages but is not a full-blown language. Nevertheless, Goldin-Meadow writes, homesign can be the “first step toward an established sign language.”
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I use this website for ideas to assist with a variety of lessons and to assist with day to day events (using social stories to assist with handling situations, picture schedules, etc....). Many are helpful for all children regardless of diagnosis.
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Brushing Teeth Routine Picture Schedule - http://daily-autism-freebie.blogspot.com/2014/09/brushing-teeth-routine.html
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Thursday, September 11, 2014
Welcome to my BLOG! I am so excited about the new school year. Periodically I will post information relating to speech/language development and resources. If you'd like to contact me, email is best because I travel between buildings (kurtam@middletownk12.org). I am still learning how to Blog, use hyperlinks, post and speak the technology lingo. The information below will not direct you to the article if you click on it but if you copy it and put it in a new address bar it will direct you to the article.
Below is a brief presentation with regards to the role of a school speech/language specialist.
www.asha.org%2fuploadedFiles%2fslp%2fschools%2fprof-consult%2fslprole.pdf
In order to receive school-based speech/language services there must be a documented negative educational impact. The Parental Rights in Special Education booklet is a user friendly document that makes reading and understanding the New Jersey Special Education Code 6A:14 a little easier. You can read it on-line at http://www.nj.gov/education/specialed/form/prise/prise.pdf.
These handouts were written by Speech/Language Pathologists and Educators and provide strategies and activities to assist with the development of a variety of skills.
http://www.superduperinc.com/handouts/pdf/398_Whynottalk.pdf
http://www.superduperinc.com/handouts/pdf/374%20Helpful%20Classroom.pdf
http://www.superduperinc.com/handouts/pdf/331_Auditory_Memory.pdf
http://www.superduperinc.com/handouts/pdf/130%20CAPD.pdf
http://www.superduperinc.com/handouts/pdf/85_Listening_Disabilities.pdf
http://www.superduperinc.com/handouts/pdf/369%20Learning%20Styles.pdf
Looking forward to a speech-filled 2014-2015 school year.
Mary-Margaret Kurta M.A., SLS/CCC-SLP
Middletown Township Public Schools
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