In my research, I replicate two fundamental hypotheses established by Jakob et al.(2011): 1)
Persons with aphasia (PWA) produce more gestures than healthy control persons (HCP) …

Gesture can convey information co-occurring with and in the absence of speech. As such, it
seems a useful strategy for people with aphasia (PWA) to compensate for their impaired …

The purpose of this study was to see how features of gestures produced by persons with
aphasia (PWA) are affected and to relate the findings to possible underlying factors …

Purpose People with aphasia (PWA) use different kinds of gesture spontaneously when they
communicate. Although there is evidence that the nature of the communicative task …

Background: Two main conflicting positions exist concerning the relationship of gesture and
speech. The first claims that gesture and speech constitute a single bimodal production …

Background: Studies have shown that the gestures produced by people with aphasia (PWA)
can convey information useful for their communication. However, the exact significance of …

Non-fluent aphasia is characterized by frequent word search and a much slower speech rate
than non-aphasic speech. For patients with this type of aphasia, communication with those …

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 …

This study addresses the use of co-speech gestures in informal face-to-face interaction
involving persons with and without aphasia (language disorder caused by acquired brain …

Background: The background to this study is that aphasiologists have increasingly started to
pay attention not only to the speech that people with aphasia produce, but also to their …