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

Background: Studies have shown that the gestures produced by people with aphasia (PWA)
can convey information useful for their communication. However, the exact significance of …

Purpose People with aphasia (PWA) use different kinds of gesture spontaneously when they
communicate. Although there is evidence that the nature of the communicative task …

Background: Gestures are spontaneous hand and arm movements that frequently
accompany speech and play an important role in everyday communication. When …

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

Background: Conveying instructions is an everyday use of language, and gestures are likely
to be a key feature of this. Although co-speech iconic gestures are tightly integrated with …

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 …

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

Purpose When we speak, we gesture, and indeed, persons with aphasia gesture more
frequently. The reason (s) for this is still being investigated, spurring an increase in the …

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 …