Teachers and teacher educators can thus learn more about which gestures might draw students’ attention, which concepts might benefit from carefully designed gestural communication, and how gestures ...

Gestural communication plays a significant role in understanding the evolution of language, particularly in great apes, our closest relatives. Recent research has focused on how these non-human ...

Although ASL was originally viewed as a form of gestural communication, the 1965 research of ASL by Dr. William Stokoe led to the discovery that ASL meets the criteria of a language and possesses a ...