Purpose Coverbal gesture use, which is affected by the presence and degree of aphasia,
can be culturally specific. The purpose of this study was to compare gesture use among …

Background: Speech and language therapists rarely analyse iconic gesture when assessing
a client with aphasia, despite a growing body of research suggesting that language and …

Purpose In this study, the authors (a) investigated whether a group of people with severe
aphasia could learn a vocabulary of pantomime gestures through therapy and (b) compared …

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 …

This post hoc study investigated coverbal gesture patterns in two persons with chronic
Wernicke's aphasia. They had both received therapy focusing on multimodal communication …

Introduction There is limited research in group communication treatment for people with
aphasia but existing studies report benefits of gesture to support conversation. Gesture …

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 …

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: The study of communicative gestures is one of considerable interest for
aphasia, in relation to theory, diagnosis, and treatment. Significant limitations currently …

Background: Previous research has found that people with aphasia produce more
spontaneous iconic gesture than control participants, especially during word-finding …