GESTURES IN PATIENTS WITH DIAGNOSED APHASIA

Czech version

Authors: Janečka Martin ¹
Published in: Listy klinické logopedie 2022; 6(1): 46-52
Category: Main topic
doi: https://doi.org/10.36833/lkl.2022.011

Overview

We want to point out how the use of gestures by Czech native speakers with diagnosed aphasia differs from the use of gestures by people without aphasia and whether aphasic people use gestures intentionally to compensate for their language impairment.

The research sample consists of six people with aphasia and twelve people without aphasia. Based on the Boston Classification System, in our research two people have Broca’s aphasia, two have Wernicke’s aphasia and two suffer from transcortical-motor aphasia. We observe the ways in which the different groups of people use different types of gestures when retelling the story of a cartoon. We record their activities on video camera, then make a notation of the speech and gesture elements.

People with aphasia use more gestures than people without aphasia, in relation to the number of words in their narration. Mb1, a male with Broca’s aphasia, showed 20.6 % of communication gestures in relation to the quantity of words. Mw2, a male with Wernicke’s aphasia, showed 11.8 % of gestures and a second male with Broca’s aphasia, Mb2, showed 7.1 % of gestures. Regarding people without aphasia, female Z7 showed the highest proportion of gestures in relation to the quantity of words (8.6 %). People with transcortical-motor aphasia showed 3.7 % (male, Mtm) and 2.7 % (female, Ztm) of gestures. A second male with Wernicke’s aphasia, Mw1, showed 2.6 % of gestures.

Within our research sample, aphasic people use gestures intentionally to compensate for their language impairment.

Keywords:

aphasia – gestures – Czech – multimodality

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