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 …

Purpose The present article aimed to inform clinical practice on whether people with
aphasia (PWA) deploy pantomime techniques similarly to participants without brain damage …

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: The existing body of work regarding discourse coherence in aphasia has provided
mixed results, leaving the question of coherence being impaired or intact as a result of brain …

Background: Discourse is an increasing focus of assessment in clinical and research
settings because it reflects everyday communication. Everyday communication is likely to …

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 …

Brain damage is associated with linguistic deficits and might alter co-speech gesture
production. Gesture production after focal brain injury has been mainly investigated with …

Gestures might serve communicative functions by supplementing spoken expressions or
restorative functions by facilitating speech production. Also, speakers with speech deficits …

Nonverbal communication, specifically hand and arm movements (commonly known as
gesture), has long been recognized and explored as a significant element in human …

This chapter focuses on all four categories of co-speech gesture such as iconic, metaphoric,
deictic, and beat. It reviews the impact of aging on general language and cognitive abilities …