Multimodal skills, but not motor skills, predict narrative and expressive pragmatic skills in children with typical development and neurodevelopmental disorders

To see whether communicative-based multimodal skills (compared to non-communicative motor skills) predicted complex language skills, this study examined the predictive power of multimodal and motor skills on narrative and expressive pragmatic abilities across two groups. Participants were children w...

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Autores: Florit Pons, Júlia, Pronina, Mariia, Igualada, Alfonso, Prieto Vives, Pilar, 1965-, Norbury, Courtenay
Tipo de documento: artigo
Estado:Versão publicada
Data de publicação:2025
País:España
Recursos:Varias* (Consorci de Biblioteques Universitáries de Catalunya, Centre de Serveis Científics i Acadèmics de Catalunya)
Repositório:Recercat. Dipósit de la Recerca de Catalunya
OAI Identifier:oai:recercat.cat:10230/71926
Acesso em linha:http://hdl.handle.net/10230/71926
http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/cdev.70015
Access Level:Acceso aberto
Palavra-chave:Motor skills
Multimodal accuracy
Narrative and pragmatic skills
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Resumo:To see whether communicative-based multimodal skills (compared to non-communicative motor skills) predicted complex language skills, this study examined the predictive power of multimodal and motor skills on narrative and expressive pragmatic abilities across two groups. Participants were children with typical development (N=88, Mage=5.34, 48% female) and with neurodevelopmental disorders (N = 51, Mage = 5.01, 25% female) mostly of white ethnicity (86.3%). We evaluated children's multimodal accuracy, motor skills, core language skills, and narrative and pragmatic skills. Results revealed that, in all groups, both multimodal skills and core language significantly predicted narrative (R2 = 0.569) and pragmatic skills (R2 = 0.621), while motor skills did not. These findings highlight the relevance of multimodality in the assessment of children's complex language skills.