A systematic review of gesture treatments for post-stroke aphasia

Rose, Miranda; Raymer, Anastasia; Lanyon, Lucie E.; Attard, Michelle

doi:10.1080/02687038.2013.805726

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“…While individual differences exist when it comes to employing co-verbal gestures, we believe that inclusion of the following two components of annotation training for future users would improve the reliability of gestural coding and analyses. First, given the mixed use of terminology in the literature by gesture scholars to describe even the same type of gesture, a more systematic review of various gestures (such as Rose, Raymer, Lanyon, & Attard, 2013) for future users will be a good foundation for appreciating the basis of how we defined the six gesture forms and eight functions in the present study. Second, more examples such as those given in Appendix A, extracted from individuals with various severities or syndromes of aphasia, will provide users with more thorough information on the varieties of gestures to be coded.…”

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Co-verbal gestures among speakers with aphasia: Influence of aphasia severity, linguistic and semantic skills, and hemiplegia on gesture employment in oral discourse

Kong

Law

Wat

et al. 2015

Journal of Communication Disorders

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The use of co-verbal gestures is common in human communication and has been reported to assist word retrieval and to facilitate verbal interactions. This study systematically investigated the impact of aphasia severity, integrity of semantic processing, and hemiplegia on the use of co-verbal gestures, with reference to gesture forms and functions, by 131 normal speakers, 48 individuals with aphasia and their controls. All participants were native Cantonese speakers. It was found that the severity of aphasia and verbal-semantic impairment was associated with significantly more co-verbal gestures. However, there was no relationship between right-sided hemiplegia and gesture employment. Moreover, significantly more gestures were employed by the speakers with aphasia, but about 10% of them did not gesture. Among those who used gestures, content-carrying gestures, including iconic, metaphoric, deictic gestures, and emblems, served the function of enhancing language content and providing information additional to the language content. As for the non-content carrying gestures, beats were used primarily for reinforcing speech prosody or guiding speech flow, while non-identifiable gestures were associated with assisting lexical retrieval or with no specific functions. The above findings would enhance our understanding of the use of various forms of co-verbal gestures in aphasic discourse production and their functions. Speech-language pathologists may also refer to the current annotation system and the results to guide clinical evaluation and remediation of gestures in aphasia.

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Co-verbal gestures among speakers with aphasia: Influence of aphasia severity, linguistic and semantic skills, and hemiplegia on gesture employment in oral discourse

Kong

Law

Wat

et al. 2015

Journal of Communication Disorders

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“…Participants also continued to receive speech and language therapy during and following acute rehabilitation which, along with spontaneous recovery, could explain some of the changes observed. Given the improvements in P1’s spoken communication, the results of future investigations should also be consider in the context of the findings from previous studies which suggest that some alternative modalities may facilitate spoken communication improvements (e.g., Ferguson, Evans, & Raymer, 2012; Rose, Raymer, Lanyon, & Attard, 2013). Future research should include studies with increased experimental control and should determine if MCPA results in functional communication changes and changes in individuals’ level of participation.…”

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A multimodal communication program for aphasia during inpatient rehabilitation: A case study

Wallace

Purdy

Skidmore

2014

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“…There is growing evidence that treatment of aphasia may positively influence recovery (Mazzoni et al 1992;Marsh et al 2014;Rose et al 2013;Fridriksson et al 2013). Studies on repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) and transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) have affirmed their beneficial effects on post-stroke aphasia recovery by inducing neuroplasticity of targeted brain areas (Holland et al 2011;Marcotte et al 2012;Volpato et al 2013;Allendorfer et al 2012;Kakuda et al 2011;Naeser et al 2005).…”

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