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Clinical Trials/IRCT20240224061099N1
IRCT20240224061099N1RecruitingUnknown

Investigating Dynamic Temporal and Tactile Cueing efficacy on speech in stroke patients with Apraxia of Speech

Tehran University of Medical Sciences0 sites6 target enrollmentStarted: TBDLast updated:
Conditions

Trial Snapshot

Phase
Unknown
Status
Recruiting
Enrollment
6

Study Overview

Brief Summary

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Study Design

Study Type
Interventional

Eligibility Criteria

Ages
5 years to 65 years (—)
Sex
All

Inclusion Criteria

  • History of a stroke in the dominant hemisphere for the language that has been at least 6 months since its occurrence
  • Be monolingual Persian
  • Passing the Pure Tone Audiometry Screening test at the threshold of 35 dB at frequencies of 500, 1000, and 2000 for at least one ear; if the patient uses a hearing aid, it is necessary to confirm the hearing adequacy at the conversational level by an audiologist
  • Normal or corrected (using lenses or glasses) visual ability
  • Absence of alcohol or drug abuse, psychological and neurological disorders other than stroke based on self-report and confirmation by their medical records
  • Obtaining a normal range score of the non-verbal intelligence test using Raven's progressive matrices
  • Being right-handed by Edinburgh handedness questionnaire
  • Absence of dysarthria or mild dysarthria according to the Frenchay Dysarthria Assessment 2 (FDA-2)
  • Auditory comprehension above 50% in Persian Mississippi Aphasia Screening Test (MASTp) and Persian Diagnostic Aphasia Battery (P-DAB-1)
  • Has a literacy level of 8th grade and above
  • Diagnosis as AOS based on supplemental verbal apraxia test
  • Obtaining a minimum score of 32 (moderate severity) and above in the verbal apraxia test

Exclusion Criteria

  • History of more than a stroke in the dominant hemisphere for the language
  • 6 months have not passed since the stroke
  • Not passing the Pure Tone Audiometry Screening test at the threshold of 35 dB at frequencies of 500, 1000, and 2000 for at least one ear
  • Failure to confirm hearing adequacy at the conversational level by an audiologist
  • Absence of normal vision or inability to correct defective vision using lenses or glasses
  • History of alcohol or drug abuse, psychological and neurological disorders other than stroke based on self-report and confirmation by medical records
  • Not obtaining a normal range score of the non-verbal intelligence test using Raven's progressive matrices
  • Not being right-handed, according to the Edinburgh Handedness Questionnaire
  • Having dysarthria above mild severity according to the Frenchay Dysarthria Assessment 2 (FDA-2) test
  • Not to be achieved auditory comprehension above 50% in the Persian Mississippi Aphasia Screening Test (MASTp) and the Persian Diagnostic Aphasia Battery (P-DAB-1)
  • Has a literacy level lower than 8th grade
  • Not diagnosing as AOS based on supplemental verbal apraxia test
  • Obtaining a score of lower than 32 in the verbal apraxia test

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