Purpose: If language production is impaired, will gestures compensate? Evidence in favor of
this prediction has often been argued to come from aphasia, but it remains contested. Here …

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

Purpose: In persons living with aphasia, we will explore the relationship between iconic
gesture production during spontaneous speech and discourse task, spoken language, 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: Gesture frequently accompanies speech in healthy speakers. For many
individuals with aphasia, gestures are a target of speech-language pathology intervention …

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 …

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

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 …