Table 2.

Number and percentage of children (N = 47) who evidenced various relations between age at the onset of declarative gestures and age at the onset of referential expressive language.

Declarative gesture	Relation between gesture and expressive language onsets
	Gesture onset prior to referential expressive language onset		Gesture onset at same age as referential expressive language onset		Gesture onset after referential expressive language onset
	N	%	N	%	N	%
Show	9	19.2	4	8.5	34	72.3
Point	2	4.2	3	6.4	42	89.4