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In Press
- Bradshaw, J., Schwichtenberg, A.J., & Iverson, J.M. (in press).
Capturing the complexity of autism: Applying a developmental cascades framework.
Child Development Perspectives.
- Mlincek, M.M., Roemer, E.J., Kraemer, C., & Iverson, J.M. (in press).
Posture Matters: Object Manipulation During the Transition to Arms-Free Sitting in Infants at Elevated vs. Typical Likelihood for Autism Spectrum Disorder.
Physical & Occupational Therapy in Pediatrics.
- Roemer, E.J., Kushner, E.H., & Iverson, J.M. (in press).
Joint engagement, parent labels, and language development: Examining everyday interactions in infant siblings of children with autism.
Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders.
Publications by Year
2022
2021
- Cham, R., Iverson, J.M., Bailes, A., Jennings, J.R., Eack, S.M., & Redfern, M.S. (2021).
Attention and sensory integration for postural control in young adults with Autism Spectrum Disorder.
Experimental Brain Research, 239, 1417-1426.
- Sansavini, A., Libertus, K., Guarini, A., Libertus, M., Benassi, M., & Iverson, J.M. (2021).
Editorial: Understanding trajectories and promoting change from early to complex skills in typical and atypical development: A cross-population approach.
Frontiers in Psychology, 12, 647464.
2016-2020
- West, K.L., *Roemer, E.J., *Northrup, J.B., & Iverson, J.M. (2020).
Profiles of action-gesture development in infants with an older sibling with ASD.
Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 63 1195-1211.
- Iverson, J.M., Shic, F., Wall, C.A., Chawarska, K., Curtin, S., Estes, A., Gardner, J.M., Hutman, T., Landa, R.J., Levin, A.R., Libertus, K., Messinger, D.S., Nelson, C.A., Ozonoff, A., Sacrey, L.-A. R., Sheperd, K., Stone, W.L., Tager-Flusberg, H.B., Wolff, J.A., Yirmiya, N., & Young, G.S. (2019).
Early motor abilities in infants at heightened vs. low risk for Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Baby Siblings Research Consortium (BSRC) study.
Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 128, 69-80.
- Jakubowski, K.P. & Iverson, J.M. (2019).
Look at Mommy: Attention-Related Communication in Mothers of Children at Risk for Autism.
Language Learning and Development, 15, 126-137.
- Leezenbaum, N.B. & Iverson, J.M. (2019).
Trajectories of posture development in infants with vs. without familial risk for ASD.
Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 49, 3257-3277.
- Roemer, E.J., West, K.L., Northrup, J.B., & Iverson, J.M. (2019).
Word comprehension mediates the link between gesture and word production: Examining language development in infant siblings of children with Autism Spectrum Disorder.
Developmental Science, 22, e12767.
- Sansavini, A., Guarini, A., Zuccarini, M., Lee, J., Faldella, G., & Iverson, J.M. (2019).
Low rates of pointing in 18-month-olds at risk for Autism Spectrum Disorder and extremely preterm infants: A common index of language delay.
Frontiers in Developmental Psychology, 10, 2131.
- Schleier, R., Iverson, J.M., King, A.P., & West, M.J. (2019).
Transitivity types predict communicative abilities in infants at risk of autism.
Journal of Social Structure, 20, 119-139.
- Taffoni, F., Focaroli, V., Keller, F., & Iverson, J.M. (2019).
Motor performance in a shape sorter task: A longitudinal study from 14 to 36 months of age in children with an older sibling with ASD.
PLoS One, 14, e0217416.
- West, K.L., Northrup, J.B., Leezenbaum, N.B., & Iverson, J.M. (in press).
The relation between walking and language in infant siblings of children with Autism Spectrum Disorder.
Child Development, 90, e356-e372.
- Benassi, E., Savini, S., Iverson, J.M., Caselli, M.C., Alessandroni, R., Faldella, G., & Sansavini, A. (2018).
Maternal responses and development of communication skills in extremely preterm infants.
First Language, 38, 175-197.
- Heymann, P., Northrup, J.B., West, K.L., Parladé, M.V., Leezenbaum, N.L., & Iverson, J.M. (2018).
Coordination is key: Joint attention and vocalisation in infant siblings of children with Autism Spectrum Disorder.
International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders, 53, 1007-1020.
- Iverson, J.M. (2018).
Early motor and communicative development in infants with an older sibling with Autism Spectrum Disorder.
Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 61, 2673-2684.
- Iverson, J.M., Northrup, J.B., Leezenbaum, N.B., Parladé, M.V., Koterba, E.A., & West, K.L. (2018).
Early communicative and language development in infant siblings of children with Autism Spectrum Disorder.
Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 48, 55-71.
- Sparaci, L., Northrup, J.B., Capirci, O., & Iverson, J.M. (2018).
From using tools to using language in infant siblings of children with autism.
Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 48, 2319-2334.
- Zuccarini, M., Guarini, A., Iverson, J. M., Benassi, E., Savini, S., Alessandroni, R., ... & Sansavini, A. (2018).
Does early object exploration support gesture and language development in extremely preterm infants and full-term infants?
Journal of Communication Disorders, 76, 76, 91-100.
- Charman, T., Brian, J., Carter, A., Carver, L., Chawarska, K., Curtin, S., Dobkins, K., Elsabbagh, M., Georgiades, S., Hertz-Picciotto, I., Hutman, T., Iverson, J.M., Jones, E., Landa, R., Macari, S., Messinger, D., Nelson, C.A., Ozonoff, S., Saulnier, C., Stone, W.L., Tager-Flusberg, H., Webb, S.J., Yirmiya, N., Young, G.S., & Zwaigenbaum, L. (2017).
Non-ASD Outcomes at 36 Months in Siblings at Familial Risk for Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD): A Baby Siblings Research Consortium (BSRC) Study.
Autism Research, 10, 169-178.
- Berger, S., Cunsolo, M., Ali, M., & Iverson, J.M. (2017).
The trajectory of concurrent motor and vocal behaviors over the transition to crawling in infancy.
Infancy, 22, 681-694.
- Northrup, J.B., Libertus, K., & Iverson, J.M. (2017).
Response to changing contingencies in infants at high and low risk for Autism Spectrum Disorder.
Autism Research, 10, 1239-1248.
- West, K.L. & Iverson, J.M. (2017).
Language learning is hands-on: Exploring links between infants’ object manipulation and verbal input.
Cognitive Development, 43, 190-200.
- Zuccarini, M., Sansavini, A., Iverson, J.M., Savini, S., Guarini, A., Alessandroni, R., Faldella, G., & Aureli, T. (2017).
Object exploration in extremely preterm infants between 6 and 9 months and relation to cognitive and language development at 24 months.
Research in Developmental Disabilities, 68, 140-152.
- Lazenby, D., Sideridis, G., Huntington, N., Prante, M., Dale, P., Curtin, S., Henkel, L., Iverson, J.M., Carver, L., Dobkins, K., Akshoomoff, N., Tagavi, D., Nelson, C., & Tager-Flusberg, H. (2016).
Language differences at 12 months in infants who develop Autism Spectrum Disorder.
Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 46, 899-909
- Benassi, E., Savini, S., Iverson, J.M., Caselli, M.C., Alessandroni, R., Faldella, G., & Sansavini, A. (2016).
Early communicative behaviors and relationships to motor skills in extremely preterm infants.
Research in Developmental Disabilities, 48, 132-144.
- LeBarton, E.S. & Iverson, J.M. (2016).
Gesture development in toddlers with an older sibling with autism.
International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders, 51, 18-30.
- Zuccarini, M., Sansavini, A., Iverson, J.M., Savini, S., Guarini, A., Alessandroni, R., Faldella, G., & Aureli, T. (2016).
Object engagement and manipulation in extremely preterm and full term infants at 6 months.
Research in Developmental Disabilities, 55, 173-184.
- Focaroli, V., Taffoni, F., Parsons, S.M., Keller, F., & Iverson, J.M. (2016).
Performance of motor sequences in children at heightened vs. low risk for ASD: A longitudinal study from 18 to 36 months of age.
Frontiers in Developmental Psychology, 7:724. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2016.00724
- LeBarton, E.S. & Iverson, J.M. (2016).
Associations between gross motor and communicative development in at-risk infants.
Infant Behavior and Development, 44, 59-67.
- Wozniak, R.H., Leezenbaum, N.L., Northrup, J.B., West, K.L., & Iverson, J.M. (2016).
The development of Autism Spectrum Disorders: Variability and causal complexity.
WIREs Cognitive Science, doi: 10.1002/wcs.1426.
2011-2015
- Messinger, D.S., Young, G.S., Webb, S.J., Ozonoff, S., Bryson, S., Carter, A., Carver, L., Charman, T., Chawarska, K., Curtin, S., Dobkins, K., Hertz-Picciotto, I., Hutman, T., Iverson, J.M., Landa, R., Nelson, C.A., Stone, W.L., Tager-Flusberg, H., & Zwaigenbaum, L. (2015).
Early sex differences are not autism-specific: A Baby Siblings Research Consortium study.
Molecular Autism, 6:32.
- Northrup, J.B. & Iverson, J.M. (2015).
Vocal coordination during early parent-infant interaction predicts language outcome in high-risk infants.
Infancy, 20, 523-547.
- Parladé, M.V. & Iverson, J.M. (2015).
The development of coordinated communication in infants at high risk for Autism Spectrum Disorders.
Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 45, 2218-2234.
- Focaroli, V., Taffoni, F., & Iverson, J.M. (2015).
Abilità di pianificazione motoria: Una rassegna sui bambini a sviluppo tipico e con Disturbo dello Spettro Autistico [Motor planning abilities: A review of typically-developing children and children with Autism Spectrum Disorder].
Psicologia Clinica dello Sviluppo, 19, 3-26.
- Zwaigenbaum, L., Young, G.S., Stone, W.L., Dobkins, K., Ozonoff, S., Brian, J., Bryson, S.E., Carver, L.J., Hutman, T., Iverson, J.M., Landa, R.J., & Messinger, D. (2014).
Early head growth in infants at risk of autism: A Baby Siblings Research Consortium study.
Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 53, 1053-1062.
- Koterba, E.A., Leezenbaum, N.B., & Iverson, J.M. (2014).
Object exploration in infants with and without risk for autism.
Autism, 18, 97-105.
- Leezenbaum, N.B., Campbell, S.B., Butler, D.M., & Iverson, J.M. (2014).
Maternal verbal responses to communication of infants at low and heightened risk for autism.
Autism, 18, 694-703.
- Rusiewicz, H.L., Shaiman, S., Iverson, J.M., & Szuminsky, N. (2014).
Effects of Perturbation and Prosody on the Coordination of Speech and Gestures.
Speech Communication, 57, 283-300.
- Aureli, T., Perucchini, P. & Iverson, J.M. (2013).
Motor acts and communicative gestures from 9 to 18 months of age in imperative and declarative context: Tracing the origin and development of pointing.
Journal of Applied Psycholinguistics, 13, 21-30.
- LeBarton, E.S. & Iverson, J.M. (2013).
Fine motor skill predicts expressive language in infant siblings of children with autism.
Developmental Sciencev, 815-827.
- Nickel, L.R., Thatcher. A.R., Keller, F., Wozniak, R.H., & Iverson, J.M. (2013).
Postural development in infants at heightened vs. low risk for Autism Spectrum Disorder.
Infancy, 18, 639-661.
- Winder, B.M., Wozniak, R.H., Parladé, M.V., & Iverson, J.M. (2013).
Spontaneous initiation of communication in infants at low and heightened risk for Autism Spectrum Disorders.
Developmental Psychology, 49, 1931-1942.
- Campolo, D., Taffoni, F., Formica, D., Iverson, J.M., Sparaci, L., Keller, F., & Guglielmelli, E. (2012).
Embedding inertial-magnetic sensors in everyday objects: Assessing spatial cognition in children.
Journal of Integrative Neuroscience, 11, 103-116.
- Sheinkopf, S.J., Iverson, J.M., Rinaldi, M.L., & Lester, B.M (2012).
Atypical cry acoustics in 6-month old infants at-risk for Autism Spectrum Disorder.
Autism Research, 5, 331-339.
- Taffoni, F., Focaroli, V., Formica, D., Guglielmelli, E., Keller, F., & Iverson, J.M. (2012).
Sensor-based technology in the study of motor skills in infants at risk for ASD.
Proceedings of the Fourth IEEE RAS/EMBS International Conference on Biomedical Robotics and Biomechatronics, 1879-1883.
- Iverson, J.M. & Braddock, B.A. (2011).
Gesture and motor skill in relation to language in children with language impairment.
Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 54, 72-86.
- Ozonoff,S., Young, G.S., Carter, A., Messinger, D., Yirmiya, N., Zwaigenbaum, L., Bryson, S., Carver, L.J., Constantino, J., Dobkins, K., Hutman, T., Iverson, J.M., Landa, R., Rogers, S.J., Sigman, M., & Stone, W.L. (2011).
Recurrence risk in younger siblings of children with Autism Spectrum Disorders: A BSRC study.
Pediatrics, 128, e488-e495.
- Parladé, M.V. & Iverson, J.M. (2011).
The interplay between language, affect, and gesture during communicative transition: A dynamic systems approach.
Developmental Psychology, 47, 820-833.
2006-2010
- Cattani, A., Bonifacio, S., Fertz, M., Iverson, J.M., Zocconi, E., & Caselli, M.C. (2010).
Communicative and linguistic development in preterm children: A longitudinal study from 12 to 24 months.
International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders, 45, 162-173.
- Goldin-Meadow, S. & Iverson, J.M. (2010).
Gesturing over the lifespan. In R. Lerner and W. Overton (Eds.),
Handbook of lifespan development. Volume 1: Methods, biology, neuroscience, and cognitive development (pp. 36-55). New York: John Wiley.
- Iverson, J.M. (2010).
Developing language in a developing body: The relationship between motor development and language development.
Journal of Child Language, 37, 229-261.
- Iverson, J.M. (2010).
Multimodality in infancy: Vocal-motor and speech-gesture coordinations in typical and atypical development.
Enfance, 3, 257-274.
- Parladé, M.V. & Iverson, J.M. (2010).
The reorganization of communicative behaviors around the onset of the vocabulary spurt.
Rivista di Psicolinguistica Applicata, 10, 43-57.
- Koterba, E.A. & Iverson, J.M. (2009).
Investigating motionese: The effect of infant-directed action on infants’ preference and object manipulation.
Infant Behavior and Development, 32, 437-444.
- Stefanini, S., Bello, A., Caselli, M.C., Iverson, J.M., & Volterra, V. (2009).
Co-speech gestures in a naming task: Developmental data.
Language and Cognitive Processes, 24, 168-189.
- Zwaigenbaum, L., Bryson, S., Lord, C., Rogers, S., Carter, A., Chawarska, K., Dawson, G., Fein, D., Iverson, J., Landa, R., Stone, W., & Yirmiya, N. (2009).
Clinical assessment and management of toddlers with suspected ASD: Insights from studies of high-risk infants.
Pediatrics, 123, 1383-1391.
- Iverson, J.M., Capirci, O., Volterra, V., & Goldin-Meadow, S. (2008).
Learning to talk in a gesture-rich world: Early communication of Italian vs. American children.
First Language.
- Fagan, M.K. & Iverson, J.M. (2007).
The influence of mouthing on infant vocalization.
Infancy, 11, 91-202.
- Goldin-Meadow, S., Goodrich, W., Sauer, E., & Iverson, J.M. (2007).
Young children use their hands to tell their mothers what to say.
Developmental Science, 10, 778-785.
- Iverson, J.M., Hall, A.J., & Nickel, L., & Wozniak, R.H. (2007).
The relationship between onset of reduplicated babble and laterality biases in infant rhythmic arm movements.
Brain and Language, 101, 198-207.
- Iverson, J.M. & Wozniak, R.H. (2007).
Variation in vocal-motor development in infant siblings of children with autism.
Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 37, 158-170.
- Longobardi, E., Caselli, M.C., & Iverson, J.M. (2007).
Input bimodale gesti e parole nell’interazione madre-bambino con sindrome di Down e con sviluppo tipico [Bimodal gestured and spoken input in interactions between mothers of children with Down syndrome and mothers of typically-developing children].
Psicologia Clinica dello Sviluppo, 9, 391-406.
- Scharp, V.L., Tompkins, C.A., & Iverson, J.M. (2007).
Gesture and aphasia: Helping hands?
Aphasiology, 21, 1-9.
- Zwaigenbaum, L., Thurm, A., Stone, W., Baranek, G., Bryson, S., Iverson, J.M., Kau, A., Klin, A., Landa, R., Lord, C., Rogers, S., & Sigman, M. (2007).
Studying the emergence of Autism Spectrum Disorders in high-risk infants: Methodological and practical issues.
Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 37, 466-480.
- Braddock, B.A., Farmer, J.F., Deidrick, K.M., Iverson, J.M., & Maria, B.L. (2006).
Oromotor and communication findings in Joubert Syndrome: Further evidence of multisystem apraxia.
Journal of Child Neurology, 21, 160-163.
- Iverson, J.M., Longobardi, E., Spampinato, K., & Caselli, M.C. (2006).
Gesture and speech in maternal input to children with Down syndrome.
International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders, 41, 235-251.
- Iverson, J.M. & Wozniak, R. H. (2006).
The growth of the growth point.
Trends in Cognitive Science, 10, 241-242.
2001-2005
- Iverson, J.M. & Goldin-Meadow, S. (2005).
Gesture paves the way for language development.
Psychological Science, 16, 367-371.
- Volterra, V., Iverson, J.M., & Castrataro, M. (2005).
The development of gesture in hearing and deaf children. In B. Schick,M. Marschark, & P. Spencer (Eds.),
Advances in sign language development by deaf children (pp.46-70). New York: Oxford University Press.
- Iverson, J.M. & Fagan, M.K. (2004).
Infant vocal-motor coordination: Precursor to the gesture-speech system?
Child Development, 75, 1053-1066.
- Iverson, J.M., Longobardi, E., & Caselli, M.C. (2003).
The relationship between gestures and words in children with Down syndrome and typically-developing children in the early stages of communicative development.
International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders, 38, 179-197.
- Capirci, O., Caselli, M.C., Iverson, J.M., Pizzuto, E., & Volterra, V. (2002).
Gesture and the nature of language in infancy: The role of gesture as a transitional device enroute to two-word speech.
In D.F. Armstrong, M.A. Karchmer, & J.V. Van Cleve (Eds.), The study of signed languages: Essays in honor of William C. Stokoe (pp. 213-246).
Washington, D.C.: Gallaudet University Press.
- Capirci, O., Iverson, J.M., Montanari, S., & Volterra, V. (2002).
Gestured, signed, and spoken modalities in early language development: The role of linguistic input.
Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 5, 25-37.
- Kelly, S.D., Iverson, J.M., Terranova, J., Niego, J., Hopkins, M., & Goldsmith, L. (2002).
Putting language back in the body: Speech and gesture on three developmental timeframes.
Developmental Neuropsychology, 22, 323-349.
- Iverson, J.M. (2001).
Coordination between vocalization and rhythmic limb movements in 6- to 9-month-old infants. In J. van der Kamp, A. Ledebt, G. Savelsbergh, & E. Thelen (Eds.),
Advances in motor development and learning in infancy (pp. 105-106). Amsterdam: IFKB.
- Iverson, J.M. & Goldin-Meadow, S. (2001).
The resilience of gesture in talk: Gesture in blind speakers and listeners.
Developmental Science, 4, 416-422.
1994-2000
- Iverson, J.M., Tencer, H.L., Lany, J., & Goldin-Meadow, S. (2000).
The relation between gesture and speech in congenitally blind and sighted language-learners.
Journal of Nonverbal Behavior, 24, 105-130.
- Iverson, J.M. (1999).
How to get to the cafeteria: Gesture and speech in blind and sighted children's spatial descriptions.
Developmental Psychology, 35, 1132-1142.
- Iverson, J.M., Capirci, O., Longobardi, E., & Caselli, M.C. (1999).
Gesturing in mother-child interactions.
Cognitive Development, 14, 57-75.
- Iverson, J.M. & Thelen, E. (1999).
Hand, mouth, and brain: The dynamic emergence of speech and gesture.
Journal of Consciousness Studies, 6, 19-40.
[Reprinted in R. Nunez, W. Freeman, et al. (Eds.) (2000).
Reclaiming cognition: The primacy of action, intention and emotion (pp. 19-40). Thorverton, UK: Imprint Academic.]
- Iverson, J.M. & Thelen, E. (1999).
The hand leads the mouth in ontogenesis too.
Brain and Behavioral Sciences.
- Iverson, J.M. (1998).
Gesture when there is no gestural model. In J.M. Iverson & S. Goldin-Meadow (Eds.), The nature and functions of gesture in children's communication.
New Directions for Child Development, no. 79 (pp. 89-100). San Francisco: Jossey Bass.
- Iverson, J.M. & Goldin-Meadow, S. (1998).
Why people gesture when they speak.
Nature, 396, 228.
- Iverson, J.M. & Goldin-Meadow, S. (Eds.) (1998).
The nature and functions of gesture in children's communication
New Directions for Child Development, no. 79. San Francisco: Jossey Bass.
- Iverson, J.M. & Thal, D.J. (1998).
Communicative transitions: There's more to the hand than meets the eye. In A.M. Wetherby, S.F. Warren & J. Reichle (Eds.),
Transitions in prelinguistic communication: Preintentional to intentional and presymbolic to symbolic (pp. 59-86). Baltimore: Paul H. Brookes.
- Iverson, J.M. & Goldin-Meadow, S. (1997).
What's communication got to do with it? Gesture in congenitally blind children.
Developmental Psychology, 33, 453-467.
- Capirci, O., Iverson, J.M., Pizzuto, E., & Volterra, V. (1996).
Communicative gestures during the transition to two-word speech.
Journal of Child Language, 23, 645-673.
- Volterra, V. & Iverson, J.M. (1995).
When do modality factors affect the course of language acquisition? In K. Emmorey & J. Reilly (Eds.),
Language, gesture, and space (pp. 371-390). Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
- Wozniak, R.H. & Iverson, J.M. (1995).
Something borrowed, something new: The comparative developmental method, cultural-historical theory, and Vygotsky's use of sources.
Contemporary Psychology, 40, 207-209.
- Iverson, J.M., Capirci, O., & Caselli, M.C. (1994).
From communication to language in two modalities.
Cognitive Development, 9, 23-43.