Susan W. Goodwyn, Linda P. Acredolo and Catherine A. Brown. Impact of Symbolic Gesturing on
Early Language Development, Journal of Nonverbal Behavior, pg. 81-82, (2000).
<http://faculty.washington.edu/sommej/Goodwynetal2000.pdf>. Summariy: she conducted a test
between verbal children with signing support, strictly verbal children, and children with extra
verbal support. her research says that “Non-intervention Control group indicated an advantage for the Sign Training group on the vast majority of language acquisition measures. These results
provide strong evidence that symbolic gesturing does not hamper verbal development and may
even facilitate it. A variety of possible explanations for such an effect are discussed. “ How I plan
to use it: Paraphrase/Quote
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