Unprecedented changes are occurring in the way treatment for aphasia is viewed—and
reimbursed. These changes, resulting from both internal and external pressures, are …

Background There has been increasing interest in dementia care in recent years, including
how practitioners, service providers and society in general can help individuals to live well …

Gesture is always mentioned in descriptions of compensatory behaviour in second
language discourse, yet it has never been adequately integrated into any theory of …

Background: Little is known about what happens to people with severe aphasia in the years
after stroke when rehabilitation comes to an end, or about day‐to‐day life for this group …

This paper outlines some reasons for why gestures are relevant to the study of SLA. First,
given cross-cultural and cross-linguistic gestural repertoires, gestures can be treated as part …

As an analytic paradigm, qualitative research offers much to clinical speech-language
pathology. This paradigm has a long history of use in the social sciences, and it is well …

Aims: The aim of this article is to identify which existing instrument of functional
communication from the aphasia literature best fits with a theoretically founded definition of …

Much of the recent literature in the field of stuttering has a primary reliance on experimental
designs and quantitative analysis. Since human communication is complex and …

Background: Increasingly there is a call from clinicians and researchers for measures that
document the impact of aphasia on a person's everyday communication. Do existing …

People with aphasia frequently rely on communicative “devices” other than their impaired
language system. This article focuses on arm and hand gesture as one such “device” or …