… use of gestures for communication. Early studies on the relationship of … to use gestures to
compensate for their verbal limitations and thus hypothesize that PWA produce more gestures …

… The use of stand-alone gestures might be most evident if aphasia is severe, where very …
speech might encourage the use of gestures as a compensatory means of communication. In a …

… Gesture has been the subject of psychological investigation for several … we use the term
gesture, we are referring to spontaneous hand movements that occur naturally in communication …

… no evidence of a relationship between aphasia severity and communication success in the
gesture modality. We conclude that gesture is less affected by aphasia severity than speech. …

… People with anomic aphasia tend have difficulty … they may use circumlocutions when speaking
or use gestures to … participants with anomic aphasia used more gestures than participants …

… We review existing literature on the study of gesture in aphasia, for … gesture to neurogenic
communication disorders can help us better understand these disorders and leverage gesture …

… People with aphasia use gestures not only to communicate relevant content but also to
compensate for their verbal limitations. The Sketch Model (De Ruiter, 2000) assumes a flexible …

… for a compensatory role of gesture in aphasia communication. Adults with Broca's aphasia,
who showed the greatest speech production difficulties, also relied most on gesture, and this …

… A number of different modalities or channels of expression are used during communication,
such as facial expressions, gesture, prosody, speech and body movements. These channels …

… persons with aphasia to discern the functions of gesture use for the participants, changes
in the use of gesture over time, and the relationship between gesture use and gesture ability. …