Purpose People with aphasia (PWA) face significant challenges in verbally expressing their
communicative intentions. Different types of gestures are produced spontaneously by PWA …

Background Information from speech and gesture is often integrated to comprehend a
message. This integration process requires the appropriate allocation of cognitive resources …

Background: In order to comprehend fully a speaker's intention in everyday communication,
information is integrated from multiple sources, including gesture and speech. There are no …

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 …

Communicative gestures can compensate incomprehensibility of oral speech in severe
aphasia, but the brain damage that causes aphasia may also have an impact on the …

Background Human communication occurs through both verbal and visual/motoric
modalities. Simultaneous conversational speech and gesture occurs across all cultures and …

Several investigators, including speech–language pathologists have examined the
hypothesis that the production of a gesture can facilitate word retrieval, in healthy speakers …

The role of nonverbal communication in patients with post-stroke language impairment
(aphasia) is not yet fully understood. This study investigated how aphasic patients perceive …

Co-speech hand gestures are an ubiquitous form of nonverbal communication, which can
express additional information that is not present in speech. Hand gestures may become …

Background: Gesture is often used as a modality to promote recovery of communication in
aphasia, both as a compensation device and as a facilitator of language recovery. To date …