Background: Increasingly there is a call from clinicians and researchers for measures that
document the impact of aphasia on a person's everyday communication. Do existing …

Background: Neurotypical young adults show task-based modulation and stability of their
eye movements across tasks. This study aimed to determine whether persons with aphasia …

Background: A frequent method for eliciting narratives involves presenting picture stimuli
and instructing the participant to “tell me what is happening in the picture (s) or tell me …

Purpose The purpose of the study was to compare the visual attention patterns of adults with
aphasia and adults without neurological conditions when viewing visual scenes with 2 types …

Background: Previous research has suggested that semantic plus gesture treatments are
effective for aphasic noun retrieval deficits. However, there is a paucity of evidence …

This paper uses conversation analysis to investigate the form and use of iconic gestures by
a man with severe Broca-type aphasia in interaction with his speech and language therapist …

Purpose In this study, the authors assessed how the addition of intentional left-hand
gestures to an intensive treatment for anomia affects 2 types of discourse: picture description …

The effects of verbal plus gestural training, a form of intersystemic reorganization in which an
intact gestural modality is paired with an impaired verbal one (Luria, 1970; Rosenbek …

Background: Anomia is a common and pervasive word production deficit following stroke.
One type of word production deficit concerns primary impairment at the lexical‐semantic …

Background: Reports have indicated that gesture+ verbal treatments and semantic‐
phonologic treatments are effective for improving lexical retrieval in aphasia. Most studies …