title: Sign language, pantomime, and gestural processing in aphasic persons: a review.
abstract: Many aphasic individuals who fail to reacquire spoken language skills may retain the ability to acquire aspects of a manual communication system. This conclusion is reached after reviewing the results of studies of pantomime recognition and production, spontaneous gestural production, and manual language training in a wide range of aphasic subjects. Overall, the aphasic subjects appeared to be less impaired in their visuomotor processing than in their auditory-vocal processing. The results, however, are not definitive enough to resolve the long-standing debate as to whether or not a central symbolic deficit is present in aphasia.
mesh_terms: D001037:Aphasia / Q000523:psychology* / Q000534:rehabilitation; D001039:Aphasia, Broca / Q000523:psychology; D001041:Aphasia, Wernicke / Q000523:psychology; D001072:Apraxias / Q000523:psychology; D001925:Brain Damage, Chronic / Q000523:psychology; D005868:Gestures; D006801:Humans; D007802:Language; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009633:Nonverbal Communication; D011597:Psychomotor Performance / Q000502:physiology; D012813:Sign Language; D014705:Verbal Behavior / Q000502:physiology