Background: Gestures can provide an excellent natural alternative to verbal communication
in people with aphasia (PWA). However, despite numerous studies focusing on gesture …

Background: Many people with aphasia are trained to use low‐tech AAC strategies
(Alternative and Augmentative Communication) to support communication, but high‐tech …

Background: Many people with severe or moderate aphasia begin to use nonverbal
methods of communication spontaneously, but some need special training to do so. Use of …

Objectives: To assess whether production of communicative gestures can be ameliorated by
therapy, to explore factors that might influence individual variability of therapeutic success …

HH Clark (1992) argues that successful referencing depends on speakers and listeners
working together to establish shared perspectives on target objects. In his collaborative …

Purpose To study the independence of gesture and verbal language production. The
authors assessed whether gesture can be semantically compensatory in cases of verbal …

Functional connectivity changes in the language network (Price, 2010), and in a control
network involved in second language (L2) processing (Abutalebi & Green, 2007) were …

Communicative gestures can compensate incomprehensibility of oral speech in severe
aphasia, but the brain damage that causes aphasia may also have an impact on the …

La nature des liens entre la parole et les gestes co-verbaux est depuis longtemps étudiée
sans qu'un réel consensus n'apparaisse. Nous passons en revue et discutons l'ensemble …

Limb apraxia is an impairment in the ability to perform skilled, purposive limb movements as
the result of neurological dysfunction. In right-handed individuals, limb apraxia is associated …