ArticleJournal of autism and developmental disorders2019
Atypicalities of Gesture Form and Function in Autistic Adults.
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- The Behavioral Presentation of Autistic Adults in a Forensic Interview.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2026Article
- Aberrant gesture use in autism spectrum disorders is unrelated to motor abnormalities.European archives of psychiatry and clinical neuroscience · 2026Article
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- A Case Study of a Deaf Autistic Adolescent's Affective and Linguistic Expressions.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Communication in Autistic Adults: An Action-Focused Review.Current psychiatry reports · 2025Review
- "There is just too much going on there": Nonverbal communication experiences of autistic adults.PloS one · 2025Article
- Deliberate synchronization of speech and gesture: Effects of neurodiversity and development.Language and cognition · 2024Article
- Investigating frank autism: clinician initial impressions and autism characteristics.Molecular autism · 2024Article
- Interpretations of meaningful and ambiguous hand gestures in autistic and non-autistic adults: A norming study.Behavior research methods · 2024Article
- The role of interpersonal synchrony in forming impressions of autistic and non-autistic adults.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Autism-Related Differences in Cortical Activation When Observing, Producing, and Imitating Communicative Gestures: An fNIRS Study.Brain sciences · 2023Article
- Measuring Dyspraxia in Autism using a Five-Minute Praxis Exam.Research in autism spectrum disorders · 2023Article
- Motor differences in autism during a human-robot imitative gesturing task.Clinical biomechanics (Bristol, Avon) · 2023Article
- Turn-timing in conversations between autistic adults: Typical short-gap transitions are preferred, but not achieved instantly.PloS one · 2023Article
- Intrapersonal synchrony analysis reveals a weaker temporal coherence between gaze and gestures in adults with autism spectrum disorder.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- Differences in the production and perception of communicative kinematics in autism.Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism Research · 2021Article
- Motor Skill Differences in Autism Spectrum Disorder: a Clinically Focused Review.Current psychiatry reports · 2021Review
- The interaction of fine motor, gesture, and structural language skills: The case of autism spectrum disorder.Research in autism spectrum disorders · 2021Article
- Gestures in Storytelling by Preschool Chinese-Speaking Children With and Without Autism.Frontiers in psychology · 2020Article
- How do minimally verbal children and adolescents with autism spectrum disorder use communicative gestures to complement their spoken language abilities?Autism & developmental language impairmentsArticle
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Abstract
While well-represented on clinical measures, co-speech gesture production has never been formally studied in autistic adults. Twenty-one verbally fluent autistic adults and 21 typically developing controls engaged in a controlled conversational task. Group differences were observed in both semantic/pragmatic and motoric features of spontaneously produced co-speech gestures. Autistic adults prioritized different functions of co-speech gesture. Specifically, they used gesture more than controls to facilitate conversational turn-taking, demonstrating a novel nonverbal strategy for regulating conversational dynamics. Autistic adults were more likely to gesture unilaterally than bilaterally, a motoric feature of gesture that was individually associated with autism symptoms. Co-speech gestures may provide a link between nonverbal communication symptoms and known differences in motor performance in autism.
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