Patients suffering from severe aphasia have to rely on non-verbal means of communication
to convey a message. However, to date it is not clear which patients are able to do so …

A significant body of evidence from cross-linguistic and developmental studies converges to
suggest that co-speech iconic gesture mirrors language. This paper aims to identify whether …

The use of gestures is one of the reasons for which some aphasics communicate better than
they speak. For these aphasics as well as their partners, multimodality becomes a resource …

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

Hand gestures, imagistically related to the content of speech, are ubiquitous in face-to-face
communication. Here we investigated people with aphasia's (PWA) processing of speech …

Results The three groups differed for word production (F= 14.7, df= 2, p<. 0001) and
speaking time (F= 52.5, p<. 0001). Due to the presence of semantic paraphasias and …

Background Co-speech gestures are omnipresent and a crucial element of human
interaction by facilitating language comprehension. However, it is unclear whether gestures …

Background: Relatively few qualitative studies have been published on the role of the
embodied practices related to aphasic language problems during talk-in-interaction. It has …

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 …

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 …