Gest

Just been reading about the GesT project at City University. GesT is an gesture based communication program for people with aphasia. The program involves patients putting on a fluorescent glove and practicing specific hand gestures on a compuer program.

Level 1: Gesture practice
Level 2: Gestures in a virtual world
Level 3: Gestures in context


Initial results have been promising and further studies are planned for 2013.


Learning Outcomes for my clinical practice

1. Dysphraxia - can impact a patient's ability to use gestures,
2. Symbolic Thinking - needed for gesture production (hold a representation in your brain) e.g. assess by picture to object matching etc.

http://www.soi.city.ac.uk/great/