ANALYSIS OF GESTURE PRODUCTION IN PORTUGUESE INFANTS WITH AND WITHOUT HEARING IMPAIRMENT

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  • Etelvina Lima Center for Innovative Care and Health Technology (ciTechcare), Polytechnic of Leiria, Leiria, Portugal
  • Anabela Cruz-Santos Research Centre on Child Studies (CIEC), Institute of Education, University of Minho, Portugal

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.46827/ejse.v10i8.5759

Ključne reči:

gestures, infants, hearing impairment, pre-linguistic period

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The aim of this study was to identify and analyze the characteristics of communicative gestures produced by Portuguese infants with and without hearing impairment aged between 8 and 18 months.  The participants in this study were 37 infants with normal hearing and 4 infants with hearing impairment. The participants were recruited from kindergartens in the central and southern regions of the country and from a hospital in the central region of Portugal. The results of this study show that as young children grow, they become increasingly confident about the effect of their communicative gestures on adults, and the characteristics of the gestures become more refined or complex; although young children with hearing impairment use communicative gestures in a similar way to their peers, the characteristics of their gesture production differ. The present study emphasizes the importance of characterizing children's gestures in the prelinguistic period, as it allows a better understanding of how the communication process develops and how gestures are used. It is expected that the differences found between different age groups and between children with and without hearing impairment will help Portuguese professionals in more efficient clinical and educational assessment and intervention processes.

 

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    Etelvina Lima (PhD), Adjunct Professor, Department of Health Sciences and Technologies, Center for Innovative Care and Health Technology (CiTechCare), School of Health Sciences, Polytechnic University of Leiria, Leiria, Portugal.

    ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2925-0874

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    Anabela Cruz-Santos (PhD), Assistant Professor, Department of Educational Psychology and Special Education, Research Centre on Child Studies (CIEC), Institute of Education, University of Minho, Braga, Portugal.

    ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9985-8466

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