While the participants with aphasia frequently experienced word-finding difficulties (M = 50.65, SD = 28.75), the control participants rarely did (M =.28, SD =.96).
A small sulcal subarachnoid hemorrhage was identified on the scheduled MRI at week 20, and an ICH was diagnosed during an unscheduled MRI at week 36, conducted after the patient experienced word-finding difficulties and disorientation.
However, when participants experienced word-finding difficulties, they produced a higher proportion of iconic gestures that outlined the shape of objects (referred to as "shape outline" gestures; Cocks et al., 2011; Pritchard et al., in press).
In the quieter moments, Elliott explores the story's subtle insights — about outsiderness, parenting, and how stripping metaphor out of language can make us experience words differently.
But she never loses control, and, in the quieter moments, she explores the story's subtle insights — about outsiderness, parenting, and how stripping metaphor out of language (Christopher takes everything literally) can make us experience words differently.
In the English language we experience words that call for harmony from Martin Luther King Jr, words that inspire courage from Winston Churchill and words that evoke passion from William Shakespeare.
The frequency and form of iconic gestures produced were analysed during times of relatively fluent speech, and times during which the participants were experiencing word-finding difficulties.
Finally, PWA with good semantics also produce additional gestures, linked to the lexical target, when experiencing word finding difficulty for objects (Cocks et al., 2011, 2013; Pritchard et al., 2013).
