Symbolic gestures are a way of communicating and “speaking” through specific manual signals and physical actions to represent objects, events, needs and interests. This form of nonverbal communication allows children to better understand the mutual relationship that occurs when two people converse and precedes verbal communication during the child's language development, which shows that children can learn and understand the world around them sooner to be able to speak. But that stage of development between understanding the world and transmitting understanding of the world through speech is a particularly difficult stage for both parents and children; parents try to create and communicate verbal labels for objects and needs for their children, but children have not physically developed the fine motor skills involved in announcing words or sounds. Through the practice of symbolic gestures, children develop the ability to regularly engage in conversation that is understandable to both parent and child, enhances semantic development, and teaches them how to respond to events and objects appropriately. Many studies have shown that when parents integrate symbolic gestures with verbal labels for objects and events, infants and toddlers are able to better understand multiple meanings associated with these objects or events and expand their knowledge of the world around them. In a longitudinal study conducted by psychologists Dr. Susan Goodwyn, Dr. Linda Acredolo, and Catherine Brown (2000), they found that after monitoring three separate groups of children in which there was an experimental group implementing symbolic gesture strategies, the experimental group outperformed ... half of the paper ...... focus on what learning processes and strategies a child develops after acquiring linguistic and communication skills through symbolic gestures and how these influence academic performance, social adaptability and the child's motivation an educational context. The implications of the cited research also suggest the need for further research on the social-emotional effects of symbolic gestures because the results of both studies showed an increase in understanding in the communication of needs and interests for both children and their parents. It would also be interesting to see how symbolic gestures might benefit children despite their SES background or environmental settings. If symbolic gestures are beneficial to a child's overall development, they should be implemented in early education practices such as preschool and kindergarten and promoted by teachers and parents.