Gesture's Role in the Communication of Adults With Different Types of Aphasia

CONCLUSIONS: Overall, our results provide evidence for a compensatory role of gesture in aphasia communication. Adults with Broca's aphasia, who showed the greatest speech production difficulties, also relied most on gesture, and this pattern was particularly pronounced in the third-person narrative context.PMID:38625101 | DOI:10.1044/2024_AJSLP-23-00046
Source: American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology - Category: Speech-Language Pathology Authors: Source Type: research