Gesture and aphasia: Helping hands?

摘要: The study of communicative gestures is considerable interest for aphasia, in relation to theory, diagnosis, and treatment. This paper focuses on four dimensions gesture production essential advancing both investigational clinical application aphasia. These include: 1) divergent conceptual frameworks, 2) functional temporal characteristics gesture, 3) coding systems definitions, 4) treatment approaches. A marriage theoretically driven, operationally defined, measurable replicable studies testing the models will help disentangle whether how incorporating diagnosing treating people with aphasia provides a ‘helping hand.’