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KMID : 0894920130130030145
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Journal of the Korean Association for Persons with Autism
2013 Volume.13 No. 3 p.145 ~ p.165
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Literature Review on Communicative Gestures of Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders.
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Lee Hee-Ran
Lee Seung-Bok
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Abstract
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The earliest indicator of autism spectrum disorders(ASD) involve a significant impairment in comprehending the nonverbal behaviors of others and in expressing the intents with gestures. Currently, there are very few empirical studies examining whether individuals with ASD extract meaningful communication from gestures. In this study, national and international studies on gestural development in children with ASD have been reviewed in order to explore current issues and trends. Twenty-one studies have been selected and analyzed based on the topics, subjects, methods, and results. Results indicated that ASD children showed significantly lower frequencies of communicative gestures than TD children, and most research on gestures of ASD children have focused on conventional, iconic, and deictic gestures. The ASD children have cross-modal processing difficulties integrating information across speech and gesture processing in communication with others. The future direction of the research on this topic has been suggested for better understanding of the characteristics of gestures and nonlinguistic behaviors of individuals with ASD.
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KEYWORD
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autism spectrum disorders, child, adolescence, communicative gestures
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