Gesture Development

Think gestures are just the sidekick to spoken words? Think again! A study by Iverson and Goldin-Meadow in 2005 observed that children who used a specific gesture later added that same word to their spoken vocabulary !

PLUS the kids who combined gesture + word early in their language development were the first to pair two words together! .

So when your babe starts using gestures... give them a high five! They are making huge leaps and bounds in their development!!