Low speech rate but high gesture rate during conversational interaction in people with Cornelia de Lange syndrome
- Resource Type
- Authors
- Chris Oliver; Joanna Moss; Laura Groves; Sotaro Kita; Effie Pearson; Lisa Nelson; Eva Nielsen
- Source
- Journal of Intellectual Disability Research. 65:601-607
- Subject
- 030506 rehabilitation
Down syndrome
medicine.medical_specialty
Cornelia de Lange Syndrome
RJ101
media_common.quotation_subject
BF
Audiology
03 medical and health sciences
Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous)
De Lange Syndrome
Intellectual Disability
Intellectual disability
medicine
Humans
Speech
Expressive communication
0501 psychology and cognitive sciences
Conversation
media_common
Gestures
05 social sciences
Rehabilitation
medicine.disease
P1
Psychiatry and Mental health
Neurology
Neurology (clinical)
Down Syndrome
0305 other medical science
Psychology
Speech rate
050104 developmental & child psychology
Gesture
Spoken language
- Language
- ISSN
- 1365-2788
0964-2633
Background: Cornelia de Lange syndrsome (CdLS) is a rare genetic syndrome with notable impaired expressive communication characterised by reduced spoken language. We examined gesture use to refine the description of expressive communication impairments in CdLS. Methods: During conversations, we compared gesture use in people with CdLS to peers with Down syndrome (DS) matched for receptive language and adaptive ability, and typically developing (TD) individuals of similar chronological age. Results: As anticipated the DS and CdLS groups used fewer words during conversation than TD peers (P