Nevena Dimitrova

Biographic Data

ID6528845
NAMENevena Dimitrova
GIVEN NAMESNevena
FAMILY NAMEDimitrova
SIGNATUREDIMITROVA N
AFFILIATIONSGeorgia State University
ORCID0000-0002-3433-096X
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS6
TOTAL CITATIONS4
AUTHOR COUNT6
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2016
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX1

  • Co-speech gesture comprehension in autistic children

    Open AccessPauline Wolfer, Franziska Baumeister et al.ARTICLEJournal of Child Language2026

    Co-speech gestures accompany or replace speech in communication. Studies investigating how autistic children understand them are scarce and inconsistent and often focus on decontextualized, iconic gestures. This study compared 73 three- to twelve-year-old autistic children with 73 neurotypical peers matched on age, non-verbal IQ, and morphosyntax. Specifically, we examined (1) their ability to understand deictic (i.e., pointing ), iconic (e.g., g…

  • Identifying Patterns of Similarities and Differences between Gesture Production and Comprehension in Autism and Typical Development

    Open AccessNevena Dimitrova, Şeyda ÖzçalışkanARTICLEJournal of Nonverbal Behavior2022

    Production and comprehension of gesture emerge early and are key to subsequent language development in typical development. Compared to typically developing (TD) children, children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) exhibit difficulties and/or differences in gesture production. However, we do not yet know if gesture production either shows similar patterns to gesture comprehension across different ages and learners, or alternatively, lags behin…

  • Covid-19 first lockdown as a window into language acquisition: Associations between caregiver-child activities and vocabulary gains

    Natalia Kartushina, Nikolaus Mani et al.PREPRINT2021

    The COVID-19 pandemic, and the resulting closure of daycare centers worldwide, led to unprecedented changes in children’s learning environments. This period of increased time at home with caregivers, with limited access to external sources (e.g., daycares) provides a unique opportunity to examine the associations between the caregiver-child activities and children’s language development. The vocabularies of 1742 children aged 8-36 months across 1…

  • Consequences of Prematurity on Cortisol Regulation and Adjustment Difficulties: A 9-Year Longitudinal Study

    Open AccessAuriana Urfer, Hélène Turpin et al.ARTICLEChildren2021

    A preterm birth represents a stressful event having potentially negative long-term consequences. Thirty-three children born preterm (<33 weeks gestational age) and eleven full-term children participated in a nine-year longitudinal study. Perinatal Risk Inventory (PERI) was used at birth to assess the perinatal stress. Salivary cortisol, collected four times a day over two consecutive days, was measured with radioimmunoassay technique at six month…

  • The developmental landscape of early parent-focused language intervention

    Open AccessLauren B Adamson, Ann P Kaiser et al.ARTICLEEarly Childhood Research Quarterly2019Cited by: 4References: 13

  • Baby sign but not spontaneous gesture predicts later vocabulary in children with Down Syndrome

    Open AccessŞeyda Özçalışkan, Seyda özçaliskan et al.ARTICLEJournal of Child Language2016

    Early spontaneous gesture, specifically deictic gesture, predicts subsequent vocabulary development in typically developing (TD) children. Here, we ask whether deictic gesture plays a similar role in predicting later vocabulary size in children with Down Syndrome (DS), who have been shown to have difficulties in speech production, but strengths in spontaneous gesture and baby sign use. We compared the gestures and baby signs produced by twenty-th…