… Some studies have shown that aphasic patients can use nonverbal communication to a
greater degree than spoken or written language. Duffy, Duffy and Pearson (1975) claimed that …

… If we confine aphasic people to those gestures that can be mapped obediently onto words
we run the risk of discarding such important communication. That is not being advocated. …

… The nonvocal communication scale described in this study, ie, the NCS, evaluates the ability
to communicate with gestures independently of verbal means in a naturalistic context, eg, “…

… to attempt a second mode of communication when first attempts are … , someone with aphasia
may learn to draw and gesture a … switch to the use of gestures to communicate the intended …

… use of communicative gestures was not restricted to aphasic … Actually, gesture quality in the
referential communication … examination: unlike gesture use, gesture intelligbility correlated …

… Two recent studies have yielded conflicting results regarding whether or not individuals
with aphasia use gesture to compensate effectively for their verbal deficits. In the first of these …

… ► We analysed the patterns of coverbal gesturing in 2 persons with Wernicke's aphasia. ►
… on multimodal communication. ► One participant showed improved communication with …

… 3 years afies any form of communication intewention, initialiy Rj, … weeks of aphasia treatment
that focused on gesture and drawing … satisfadion as an ovieomq drawing, e%icacyt gesture …

… The relationship between aphasia and disturbances of gesture and perception. In EH
Lenneberg & E. Lenneberg (Eds), Foundations of language development, a multidisciplinary …

… Finally, our data do not throw any light on whether GeST improved the use of gesture in
everyday communication. Indeed, two of the partners expressed reservations about the …