A. INTRODUCTION Since the beginnings of aphasiology, the question of the relative
competence of aphasics to express themselves nonverbally has been controversial. On one …

Very early in the attempt to identify nosological units, researchers accumulated numerous
incidental observations on the facial expressions and gestures of their patients. These …

The most commonly held view concerning the nature of aphasia is, that it is a disorder
specific to verbal symbolic processes. An alternate view is that aphasia is a more generic …

THE subject which I am going to discuss concerns verbal expression in aphasia and, more
especially, oral expression. In other words, I am going to limit myself to that phase of …

In order to determine the extent to which aphasic patients are able to use hand gestures in
their spontaneous communication, informally structured 20-minute interviews were …

THE literature on aphasia from the middle 1800's includes references to the ability of
aphasic patients to indicate, by means of pantomime, their awareness of certain things …

A brief survey of the field of aphasia is presented. Many of the facts described in the
neurological classics remain valid, but the interpretation of these facts must be altered. The …

Background: Two main conflicting positions exist concerning the relationship of gesture and
speech. The first claims that gesture and speech constitute a single bimodal production …

This article provides a brief history of the study of aphasia, along with current data on
aphasic syndromes and their localization in the brain as well as information on testing …

We often hear that 'aphasics communicate better than they speak'. This proposition seems
very paradoxical if we consider that speech constitutes the main tool of communication …