Can gesticulation help aphasic people speak, or rather, communicate?

Advances in Speech Language Pathology

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 124-127

  de Ruiter, Jan Peter ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHOLINGUISTICS   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Aphasia; Gesticulation; Gesture; Lexical retrieval

Indexed keywords

EID: 33646396492     PISSN: 14417049     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14417040600667285     Document Type: Note

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