Benefits and limitations of computer gesture therapy for the rehabilitation of severe aphasia

A Roper, J Marshall, S Wilson - Frontiers in human neuroscience, 2016 - frontiersin.org
gesture therapy technology for people with severe aphasia: GeST+. Study outcomes show
significant improvement in gesture production abilities for adults with severe aphasiagesture. …

Use of co-verbal gestures during word-finding difficulty among Cantonese speakers with fluent aphasia and unimpaired controls

APH Kong, SP Law, CKY Cheung - Aphasiology, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
… Due to the inclusive coding approach adopted here, one may argue the possible masking
effect of particular gesture types on specific WFDs, which can be considered as a limitation of …

Expressing one's self in the context of aphasia: The utility of arm and hand gestures in aphasia treatments

M Rose - Expressing Oneself/Expressing One's Self, 2009 - api.taylorfrancis.com
… impact of limb apraxia on gesture use by aphasic speakers is … the effectiveness of gesture
treatments for aphasic noun and … research into the utility of gesture in the treatment of aphasia. …

Engagement with a virtual clinician encourages gesture usage in speakers with aphasia

S Snell, N Martin, EA Keshner - 2017 International Conference …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
… postural actions in patients with aphasia. Our results suggest that individuals with aphasia
produced larger gestures after the clinician produced gestures, and they became more …

Overcoming unintelligibility in aphasia: The impact of non‐verbal interactive strategies

JS Damico, BT Wilson… - Clinical linguistics & …, 2008 - Taylor & Francis
… As a follow‐up to previous research, this report focuses on the wide range of gestures
employed by an individual with aphasia to overcome instances of unintelligibility and re‐establish …

[PDF][PDF] Gestures used in word search episodes–by persons with and without aphasia

E Ahlsén - Proceedings of the 2nd European and the 5th Nordic …, 2015 - ep.liu.se
… research questions to be addressed in this study are: 1) What gesture types and functions
occur in episodes of OCM/word search/reformulation for persons with and without aphasia? …

[HTML][HTML] Gestures and words: facilitating recovery in aphasia

A Raymer - The ASHA Leader, 2007 - ASHA
… The interplay between limb apraxia and aphasia is important to consider as we promote
using gestures to enhance communication and language recovery in patients with aphasia. With …

[PDF][PDF] The use of gestures in dyads consisting of an aphasic and a nonaphasic adult

PG Larkins, EJ Webster - Clinical Aphasiology: Proceedings of …, 1981 - aphasiology.pitt.edu
aphasic person may resort to gesture as a means of facilitating communication. The nonfluent
aphasic person in this study had been in therapy and had worked on using gestures while …

A description of verbal and gestural communication during postictal aphasia

A Fasola, FX Alario, M Tellier, B Giusiano… - Epilepsy & Behavior, 2020 - Elsevier
… We chose to represent the rhythmic gesture category only; with our definition gesture
frequency as a proportion of gesture types (see Methods) the illustrative gesture category has the …

Limb apraxia, pantomine, and lexical gesture in aphasic speakers: Preliminary findings

M Rose, J Douglas - Aphasiology, 2003 - Taylor & Francis
… Following the assumption that limb praxis and conversational gesture reflect differing … with
aphasia and limb apraxia would produce the full range of conversational gesture types in a …