Methods Discourse samples of two participants with Broca's aphasia and one control
participant were audio-video recorded and transcribed. The communicative facilitators used …

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 …

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 …

The purpose of this study was to investigate the communicative role and rehabilitative
potential of gestures in persons with chronic aphasia (PWA). Previous gesture research has …

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

Introduction Co-verbal gestures can facilitate word production among persons with aphasia
(PWA)(Rose, Douglas, & Matyas, 2002) and play a communicative role for PWA to convey …

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

Background: Gestures are spontaneous hand and arm movements that are part of everyday
communication. The roles of gestures are facilitating speech; particularly when Word Finding …

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 …