Background: Gestures are spontaneous hand and arm movements that are part of everyday
communication. The roles of gestures in communication are disputed. Most agree that they …

We report a novel and accessible questionnaire designed to examine levels of technology
use in adults with severe aphasia and to assess the impact of a co-designed computer …

We welcome the lead article (Rose,) and congratulate Miranda Rose for raising important
issues for the utility of gesture and pantomime in the rehabilitation of people with aphasia …

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 Improvement in daily life activities such as conversation has been prioritized by
people with aphasia, which has led to an increased interest in developing and evaluating …

Gestural plus verbal facilitation of naming was investigated in an aphasic right handed adult
with apraxia and hemisensory deficit but no hemiplegia secondary to a left hemisphere …

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

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

We compared the effects of two treatments for aphasic word retrieval impairments, errorless
naming treatment (ENT) and gestural facilitation of naming (GES), within the same …

Management of patients with aph asia often focuses on training nonverbal augmentative
communication strategies; however, these strategies frequently do not generalize to natural …