ABSTRACT
I have, with minor exceptions, been describing the deaf children’s gesture system as a steady state. But over the course of our observations, we did see some changes in the children’s gestures. Some of the children were quite young when we first observed them (around a year and a half) and thus had a long way to go. Others were relatively advanced during our first observation sessions. Thus, a combination of longitudinal and cross-sectional observations contribute to what we know about the children’s developmental trajectory. The most obvious developmental finding is that the children’s utterances grow in size and scope.
