Short video by Ming (Agents of Speech) describing a study that examines whether prelinguistic communication complexity (gestures, vocalizations, and their combinations) in young autistic children (approx. 1–3 years) predicts later expressive language. The presenter states that higher frequency/complexity of communicative acts and variety of communicative functions correlate with better future speech outcomes.
What if we can predict how much autistic children will speak in the future? So there's a recent study that talks about pre linguistic communication and how we can see how it predicts expressive language in autistic children. Basically, what this is talking about is if a child who is around like one to three, what we consider pre linguistic, that means not speaking yet, how do we predict how well they will do in the future? And basically, to sum it up, it comes down to how complex the communication is with you. So the more frequent that child uses gestures, vocalizations and combinations together, and the reasons will actually predict how well they will speak, because basically, the more complex their communication is with you, the better the results will be.
