TY - JOUR
T1 - The relationship between limb apraxia and the spontaneous use of communicative gesture in aphasia
AU - Borod, Joan C.
AU - Fitzpatrick, Patricia M.
AU - Helm-Estabrooks, Nancy
AU - Goodglass, Harold
N1 - Funding Information:
This research was supported by USPHS Grants NSO6209 to the Aphasia Research Center and MH379.52 to the Psychiatry Department of New York University Medical Center. We are grateful to Barbara Barresi, Alizah Brozgold, Laura Grabell, Jennifer Sandson, Barbara Sherman, and Joan Welkowitz for their assistance, and to Carol Biber for her contribution to an early draft of the NCS. Address correspondence and reprint requests to Dr. Joan C. Borod, Department of Psychology, Queens College, Flushing, NY 11367.
PY - 1989/5
Y1 - 1989/5
N2 - This study investigated the relationship between limb apraxia, as assessed by a formal clinical test, and the production of spontaneous communicative gesture, as measured by a newly designed rating scale-the Nonvocal Communication Scale (NCS). Subjects were aphasic adult males with cerebrovascular lesions of the left hemisphere. The performance of aphasic patients on the praxis test and the NCS was independent of demographic, neuroanatomic, linguistic, or cognitive variables, except for global aphasics who were low-scoring across the board. There was a significant positive correlation, however, between praxis ability and spontaneous gestural communication. Clinical implications of these findings are discussed.
AB - This study investigated the relationship between limb apraxia, as assessed by a formal clinical test, and the production of spontaneous communicative gesture, as measured by a newly designed rating scale-the Nonvocal Communication Scale (NCS). Subjects were aphasic adult males with cerebrovascular lesions of the left hemisphere. The performance of aphasic patients on the praxis test and the NCS was independent of demographic, neuroanatomic, linguistic, or cognitive variables, except for global aphasics who were low-scoring across the board. There was a significant positive correlation, however, between praxis ability and spontaneous gestural communication. Clinical implications of these findings are discussed.
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U2 - 10.1016/0278-2626(89)90079-1
DO - 10.1016/0278-2626(89)90079-1
M3 - Article
C2 - 2469448
AN - SCOPUS:0024669615
SN - 0278-2626
VL - 10
SP - 121
EP - 131
JO - Brain and Cognition
JF - Brain and Cognition
IS - 1
ER -