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

Daumüller, Maike; Goldenberg, Georg

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“…Rose (2006) argues that such a lack of experimental design bedevilled early studies of gesture therapy. Daumuller and Goldenberg (2010) addressed this problem, by comparing outcomes across treated and control participants. Treated participants were taught 24 communicative gestures over 3 treatment phases, while controls underwent repeated testing with no intervening therapy.…”

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“…The authors also acknowledge that their design did not explore the communicative use of gestures. Daumuller and Goldenberg (2010) targeted gesture purely as a substitute for speech. Others have explored its potential as a speech facilitator (e.g.…”

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“…Like Daumuller and Goldenberg (2010), Marshall et al were interested in the rate and extent of learning. Interestingly, they found that naming gains significantly outstripped gesture gains.…”

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“…Most previous studies of compensatory gesture therapy employed object or picture based elicitations of gestures as the primary evaluation measure (e.g., Code & Gaunt, 1986;Coelho & Duffy, 1987, 1990Conlon & McNeil, 1991;Cubelli, Trentini, Montagna, 1991;Daumüller & Goldenberg, 2010). As a result, there is no information about the impact of therapy on communication, or even whether participants used the taught gestures during interactions.…”

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Enhancing Communication Through Gesture and Naming Therapy

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This is the unspecified version of the paper.This version of the publication may differ from the final published version. Method: All participants received 15 hours of gesture and naming treatment (reported in a companion paper). Half the group received a further 15 hours of strategic therapy, while the remaining seven participants received no further input. The effects of therapy on communication were assessed with two novel measures. These required participants to convey simple messages and narratives to their communication partner. In both assessments a subset of the stimuli featured items that had been targets in gesture or naming treatment. Permanent repository linkResults: Performance on the communication measures was stable over two baseline assessments, but improved after gesture and naming treatment. Those who received additional strategic therapy made further gains on the message but not the narrative task. Communication gains were not specific to the stimuli featuring trained items.Conclusions: This study suggests that gesture and naming treatments can benefit interactive communication. The additional benefits of strategic therapy were less clear cut, but did impact on the transmission of simple messages. Gains seem to reflect the development of general communication skills, rather than the use of trained gestures and/or words.3

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“…Most accounts were of single cases or very small groups, and many lacked an experimental design. A recent study (Daumuller & Goldenberg, 2010) attempted to address these concerns. This entered 25 people with severe aphasia into the treatment group (although only 9 completed all phases) and compared their outcomes to untreated controls.…”

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Gesture and Naming Therapy for People With Severe Aphasia: A Group Study

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This is the unspecified version of the paper.This version of the publication may differ from the final published version. Permanent repository link AbstractPurpose: This study investigated whether a group of people with severe aphasia could learn a vocabulary of pantomime gestures through therapy, and compared their learning of gestures with their learning of words. It also examined whether gesture therapy cued word production and whether naming therapy cued gestures.Method: Fourteen people with severe aphasia received 15 hours of gesture and naming treatment. Evaluations comprised repeated measures of gesture and word production, comparing treated and untreated items.Results: Baseline measures were stable, but improved significantly following therapy. Across the group, improvements in naming were greater than improvements in gesture. This trend was evident in most individuals' results, although three made better progress in gesture. Gains were item specific and there was no evidence of cross modality cuing. Items that received gesture therapy did not improve in naming, and items that received naming therapy did not improve in gesture. Conclusions:Results show that people with severe aphasia can respond to gesture and naming therapy. Given the unequal gains, naming may be a more productive therapy target than gesture for many (although not all) individuals with severe aphasia.The communicative benefits of therapy were not examined, but are addressed in a follow up paper.3

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

Abstract: In view of the limited generalization, gesture therapy should concentrate on gestures that are relevant for communication in daily living of the individual patients.

Cited by 55 publications

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Computer delivery of gesture therapy for people with severe aphasia

Computer delivery of gesture therapy for people with severe aphasia

Enhancing Communication Through Gesture and Naming Therapy

Gesture and Naming Therapy for People With Severe Aphasia: A Group Study

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