Therapy to improve gestural expression in aphasia: a controlled clinical trial

摘要: Objectives: To assess whether production of communicative gestures can be ameliorated by therapy, to explore factors that might influence individual variability therapeutic success and find out therapy effects generalize unpractised gestures.Setting: Hospital department specializing in rehabilitation patients with neuropsychological disorders.Subjects: Twenty-three consecutive severely aphasic received therapy; ten were tested repeatedly without interpolated therapy.Design: Twenty-four divided into three sets eight gestures. In the group one set was practised during each periods after period changes proficiency assessed for all sets. Comparisons made between within group, brought forward repeated testing control grou...