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Recent News & Publications

	Feb 19, 2009 A Handwaving Approach to Arithmetic
	Feb 12, 2009 Kids' Gestures Foretell Better Vocabularies
	Feb 12, 2009 Pointing Can Boost Toddlers' Language Skills, says Researchers

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Recent Journal Publications
Journal	Title
Developmental Psychology, 2009	Does linguistic input play the same role in language learning for children with and without early brain injury?
Developmental Psychology, 2008	Hands in the air: Using ungrounded iconic gestures to teach children conservation of quantity.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2008	The natural order of events: How speakers of different languages represent events nonverbally.
First Language, 2008	Learning to talk in a gesture-rich world: Early communication in Italian vs. American children.

Recent Chapters
Book Title	Editor(s)	Chapter Title
Infant pathways to language: Methods, models, and research directions	J. Colombo, P. McCardle & L. Freund	Using the hands to study how children learn language.
Studies in language and cognition	J. Zlatev, M. Andrén, M. Johansson Falck, & C. Lundmark	Gesture’s role in creating and learning language.

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The two books recently published by Susan Goldin-Meadow

Resilience of Language Spontaneously Created Gesture Systems	Hearing Gesture The Gestures We Produce When We Talk
Dr. Susan Goldin-Meadow's research with Carolyn Mylander on the gestures of deaf American and Chinese children has received international attention. Examples of these press releases are: How Deaf Kids Learn to 'Talk' which was covered by ABCNEWS.com Deafness and Gestures Across Cultures which was covered by National Public Radio (NPR) The study has also been covered in the Chicago Tribune, Washington Post, the Daily Telegraph in Great Britain, and Der Spiegel in Germany.	Dr. Goldin-Meadow's research on the gestures that hearing speakers produce when they talk is described in her book, Hearing Gesture: How Our Hands Help Us Think. This book was published in 2003 by Harvard University Press. This work has also received press coverage, including the Boston Globe, the Chicago Sun-Times, Spektrum de Wissenschaften (the German edition of Scientific American), Red Book, and the Readers Digest list of breakthroughs in 2003. In addition, the work was the subject of a limerick on NPR's Wait, Wait Don't Tell Me (November 17, 2001): If your brain doesn't meet high demands Here's some gestures to loosen your glands. Put ‘em up in the air, Shake ‘em like you don't care. You'll be smarter if you use your _________. Answer: HANDS

The two books recently published by Susan Goldin-Meadow

Resilience of Language
Spontaneously Created Gesture Systems

Hearing Gesture
The Gestures We Produce When We Talk

Dr. Susan Goldin-Meadow's research with Carolyn Mylander on the gestures of deaf American and Chinese children has received international attention.
Examples of these press releases are:

How Deaf Kids Learn to 'Talk' which was covered by ABCNEWS.com
Deafness and Gestures Across Cultures which was covered by National Public Radio (NPR)

The study has also been covered in the Chicago Tribune, Washington Post, the Daily Telegraph in Great Britain, and Der Spiegel in Germany.

Dr. Goldin-Meadow's research on the gestures that hearing speakers produce when they talk is described in her book, Hearing Gesture: How Our Hands Help Us Think. This book was published in 2003 by Harvard University Press.

This work has also received press coverage, including the Boston Globe, the Chicago Sun-Times, Spektrum de Wissenschaften (the German edition of Scientific American), Red Book, and the Readers Digest list of breakthroughs in 2003. In addition, the work was the subject of a limerick on NPR's Wait, Wait Don't Tell Me (November 17, 2001):

If your brain doesn't meet high demands
Here's some gestures to loosen your glands.
Put ‘em up in the air,
Shake ‘em like you don't care.
You'll be smarter if you use your _________.

Answer: HANDS