… of people with aphasia. This article aims to synthesize the relevant information about gesture
in aphasia … understanding the role of limb apraxia in gesture production and gesture-based …

… gesture is for aphasic communication. Furthermore, PWA as well as NBDP produce various
gesture … noticed that these Essential gestures fulfilled different roles in the communication of …

… Taken together, the studies in this special issue advance our understanding of the role of
gesture in people with aphasia, both in terms of natural adaptive behaviours and what may be …

… Exploring gestures in aphasia may further illuminate their role… use of gestures in the
conversation of participants with aphasia (… facilitative role of gesture by determining whether …

… gestures that aphasic people use, and that we might want to promote in therapy, obey no
such gesture … If we confine aphasic people to those gestures that can be mapped obediently …

… role in everyday communication. When communication is impaired by aphasia, gestures are
affected as well. It is important to find out how people with aphasia (PWA) use gesture as an …

… To investigate the relationship between aphasia type and the types of gestures produced,
we coded nine gesture types based on classifications that have been used in previous studies …

… for a compensatory role of gesture in aphasia communication. Adults with Broca's aphasia,
who showed the greatest speech production difficulties, also relied most on gesture, and this …

… Footnote 2 In other words, this account predicts a compensatory role for gestures in conveying
the message when speech is impaired. The prediction was confirmed in our study: seven …

… regions is a prerequisite for the production of comprehensible gestures in persons with severe
aphasia. A possible interpretation of the roles of these brain regions is that they cooperate …