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  • Developmental Psychology
  • Speech-Language Pathology

Background:

  • Standardized language tests may misdiagnose bilingual children due to varied language exposure.
  • Iconic gestures are strongly linked to language abilities, offering a potential non-verbal assessment avenue.
  • Developmental language disorder (DLD) in bilingual children (biDLD) requires specialized, accessible screening tools.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To explore the potential and validity of an iconic gesture comprehension task as a screening tool for biDLD.
  • To assess if gesture comprehension can differentiate between typically developing bilingual children and those with biDLD.
  • To investigate the relationship between gesture performance and language abilities in bilingual children.

Main Methods:

  • Developed an iconic gesture comprehension task involving image selection after observing a gesture.
  • Administered the task to 70 monolingual typically developing (moTD), 70 bilingual typically developing (biTD), and 40 biDLD children aged 3-9.
  • Conducted language assessments to correlate gesture performance with language skills.

Main Results:

  • Gesture comprehension performance improved with age and was significantly lower in biDLD compared to moTD and biTD groups.
  • The task was not influenced by language experience but showed 68.18% diagnostic accuracy at the individual level.
  • Gesture performance correlated with lexicosemantic abilities, indicating sensitivity to semantic deficits in biDLD.

Conclusions:

  • The iconic gesture task effectively differentiates biDLD from typical development at a group level.
  • Individual diagnostic accuracy is currently limited, necessitating further refinement for screening purposes.
  • Future research should focus on modifying the task and clarifying the gesture-language relationship in biDLD.