The gestures ASL signers use tell us when they are ready to learn math

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The manual gestures that hearing children produce when explaining their answers to math problems predict whether they will profit from instruction in those problems. We ask here wehether gesture plays a similar role in deaf children, whose primary communication system is in the manual modality. Forty ASL-Signing deaf children explained their solutions to math problems and were then given instruction in those problems. Children who produced many gestures conveying different information from their signs were more likely to succeed after instruction than children produced few, suggesting that mismatch can occur within-modality, and paving the way for using gesture-based teaching strategies with deaf learners.

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