People with aphasia frequently rely on communicative “devices” other than their impaired
language system. This article focuses on arm and hand gesture as one such “device” or …

Background: There is considerable disagreement in the literature concerning the function of
co‐verbal gesture. Studies of the relationship between speech and gesture have employed …

Background: Speech-language pathologists considering the use of gesture as a therapeutic
modality for clients with aphasia must first evaluate the integrity of their cleints' gesture …

Purpose There is a 40-year history of interest in the use of arm and hand gestures in
treatments that target the reduction of aphasic linguistic impairment and compensatory …

Background: Gestures can provide an excellent natural alternative to verbal communication
in people with aphasia (PWA). However, despite numerous studies focusing on gesture …

In order to determine the extent to which aphasic patients are able to use hand gestures in
their spontaneous communication, informally structured 20-minute interviews were …

In a number of studies that have examined the gestural disturbance in aphasia and the utility
of gestural interventions in aphasia therapy, a variable degree of facilitation of verbalization …

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 …

Effective communication in aphasia depends not only on use of preserved linguistic
capacities but also (and perhaps primarily) on the capacity to exploit alternative modalities of …

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 …