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

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• dc.contributor.author Florit Pons, Júlia
• dc.contributor.author Pronina, Mariia
• dc.contributor.author Igualada, Alfonso
• dc.contributor.author Prieto Vives, Pilar, 1965-
• dc.contributor.author Norbury, Courtenay
• dc.date.accessioned 2025-11-18T15:39:45Z
• dc.date.available 2025-11-18T15:39:45Z
• dc.date.issued 2025
• dc.date.updated 2025-11-18T15:39:45Z
• dc.description.abstract 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.
• dc.description.sponsorship The authors would like to acknowledge the financial support awarded by the Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities (PID2021-123823NB-I00: "Multimodal Communication: The Integration of Prosody and Gesture in Human Communication and in Language Learning"; MICIU/AEI/10.13039/501100011033) and awarded by the Generalitat de Catalunya (2021 SGR_922). Also, the first author would like to acknowledge a Ph.D. grant, awarded by the Generalitat de Catalunya (2021 FI_B 00778) and the Department of Translation and Language Sciences at Universitat Pompeu Fabra.
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• dc.identifier.citation Florit-Pons J, Pronina M, Igualada A, Prieto P, Norbury C. Multimodal skills, but not motor skills, predict narrative and expressive pragmatic skills in children with typical development and neurodevelopmental disorders. Child Dev. 2025 Sep-Oct;96(5):1807-24. DOI: 10.1111/cdev.70015
• dc.identifier.doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/cdev.70015
• dc.identifier.issn 0009-3920
• dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10230/71926
• dc.language.iso eng
• dc.publisher Wiley
• dc.relation.ispartof Child Development. 2025;96(5):1807-24
• dc.relation.projectID info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/3PE/PID2021-123823NB-I00
• dc.rights © 2025 The Author(s). Child Development published by Wiley Periodicals LLC on behalf of Society for Research in Child Development. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs License, which permits use and distribution in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, the use is non-commercial and no modifications or adaptations are made.
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• dc.subject.keyword Motor skills
• dc.subject.keyword Multimodal accuracy
• dc.subject.keyword Narrative and pragmatic skills
• dc.title Multimodal skills, but not motor skills, predict narrative and expressive pragmatic skills in children with typical development and neurodevelopmental disorders
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