Background: Communication is essential for successful rehabilitation, yet few aphasia
treatments have been investigated during the acute stroke phase. Alternative modality use …

Background: Aphasia due to stroke is often very severe immediately after onset. However,
knowledge about the impact of severity on therapeutic potential in the first months is scarce …

Background: While language-related tests including communication activities of daily living-
second edition (CADL-2) test showed that alike were able to test language-related functional …

This thesis presents novel and original studies on the relationship between early vocabulary
and gesture development. The thesis is split into two halves. First, the thesis addresses the …

Bakgrunn og formål: Afasi er ervervede språk-og kommunikasjonsvansker som følge av
hjerneskade, som kan føre til avvik i produksjon og forståelse av tale, skrift og gester (Code …