Developmental Pathways between Infant Gestures and Symbolic Actions, and Children's Communicative Skills at Age 5: Findings from the All Our Families Pregnancy Cohort

Autor/inn/en	Morin-Lessard, Elizabeth; Hentges, Rochelle F.; Tough, Suzanne C.; Graham, Susan A.
Titel	Developmental Pathways between Infant Gestures and Symbolic Actions, and Children's Communicative Skills at Age 5: Findings from the All Our Families Pregnancy Cohort
Quelle	In: Child Development, 92 (2021) 3, S.799-810 (12 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Morin-Lessard, Elizabeth) ORCID (Hentges, Rochelle F.) ORCID (Tough, Suzanne C.) ORCID (Graham, Susan A.)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0009-3920
DOI	10.1111/cdev.13567
Schlagwörter	Infants; Young Children; Nonverbal Communication; Communication Skills; Child Development; Predictor Variables; Vocabulary; Kindergarten; Developmental Stages + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Infant; Toddler; Toddlers; Kleinkind; Frühe Kindheit; Non-verbal communication; Nonverbale Kommunikation; Kommunikationsstil; Kindesentwicklung; Prädiktor; Wortschatz
Abstract	Using data from the All Our Families study, a longitudinal study of 1992 mother-child dyads in Canada (47.7% female; 81.9% White), we examined the developmental pathways between infant gestures and symbolic actions and communicative skills at age 5. Communicative gestures at age 12 months (e.g., pointing, nodding head "yes"), obtained via parental report, predicted stronger general communicative skills at age 5 years. Moreover, greater use of symbolic actions (e.g., "feeding" a stuffed animal with a bottle) indirectly predicted increased communicative skills at age 5 via increased productive vocabulary at 24 months. These pathways support the hypothesis that children's communicative skills during the transition to kindergarten emerge from a chain of developmental abilities starting with gestures and symbolic actions during infancy. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01