Task-Specific Training
Research
- Smania et al. assigned 33 participants with left hemisphere stroke, limb apraxia, and aphasia to either the gesture-production training program group or the control group.
- Gesture-production training program that involved transitive (involving objects), intransitive-symbolic (e.g. "Wave goodbye"), and intransitive-nonsymbolic (i.e. "Put your hand under your chin") gestures (Quintana, 2008).
- Following the training program (involving 50 minute sessions, 3 times per week, for a maximum of 35 sessions), the participants in the training program "demonstrated significant improvements on performance of tests of ideational and ideomotor apraxia which included gestures not practice" (Quintana, 2008, p.744). In other words, a training program that involved gesture production allowed for improved gesture production.
- A major limitation of the study was that it did not consider how training was applicable to daily life (Quintana, 2008).
- Smania, N., Aglioti, S. M., Girardi, F., Tinazzi, M., Fiaschi, A., Cosentino, A., & Corato, E. (2006). Rehabilitation of limb apraxia improves daily life activities in patients with stroke. Neurology, 67(11), 2050-2052.
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Video Examples of Task-Specific Gesture Training
Gesture training with a hair brush
Video clip retrieved from Molyneux (n.d.).
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Gesture training with deodorant
Video clip retrieved from Molyneux (n.d.).
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