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 …

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

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

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 …

Conversation is important in everyday life and this importance is not diminished in aphasia.
Context parameters such as topic and partner are known to influence the linguistic content of …

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

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 …

Purpose For many individuals with aphasia, gestures form a vital component of message
transfer and are the target of speech-language pathology intervention. What remains …

The use of co-verbal gestures is common in human communication and has been reported
to assist word retrieval and to facilitate verbal interactions. This study systematically …

Non-fluent aphasia is characterized by frequent word search and a much slower speech rate
than non-aphasic speech. For patients with this type of aphasia, communication with those …