The Production of Gesture and Speech by People With Aphasia: Influence of Communicative Constraints.

Conclusions The current results suggest that PWA use gestures to compensate for their verbal limitations under varying communicative constraints. The properties of the communicative task influence the use of different gesture types in people with and without aphasia. Thus, the influence of communicative constraints needs to be considered when assessing PWA's multimodal communicative abilities.
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Source: Journal of speech, language, and hearing research : JSLHR - November 10, 2019 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Authors: de Beer C, de Ruiter JP, Hielscher-Fastabend M, Hogrefe K Tags: J Speech Lang Hear Res Source Type: research