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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

2016-2020

  • 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.
  • 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.