ABSTRACT
There are certainly several ways of paying tribute to a scholar and a friend such as Chris Code. Rather than referring explicitly to specific contributions he has made to aphasiology, we have chosen to offer him a chapter dealing with a somewhat new definition of the notion of “handicap” which, we thought, he might like, knowing how attached he has been throughout his career to a clinical approach such as the one we adopt here. Doing so, we hope Chris will react to our proposals, thus pursuing an interaction which began during a sabbatical year he partly spent in our laboratory, in Toulouse, a decade ago.
