Intensive Language-Action Therapy (ILAT): Does communicative interaction contribute to the efficacy of intensive aphasia therapy?
Not Applicable
- Conditions
- F80.1Expressive language disorder
- Registration Number
- DRKS00005482
- Lead Sponsor
- Freie Universität Berlin; Brain Language Laboratory
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Complete
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 18
Inclusion Criteria
Patients are able to give informed consent;
aphasic symptoms;
patients are more than one year post infarction;
German native speakers;
no visual or auditory impairments
Exclusion Criteria
severe visual or auditory impairments;
severe apraxia of speech or agnosia;
reinfarctions;
additional neurological disorders
major depression or psychosis
Study & Design
- Study Type
- interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method anguage Assessment: Aachen Aphasia Test (AAT), used before and after each treatment interval
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method (1) EEG; dependent variables: event-related EEG potentials, measured before and after each training period<br><br>(2) Lexical decision task; dependent variables: error rates und reaction times, measured before and after each training period<br><br>(3) Communicative-pragmatic request and naming task, applied before and after each training period<br><br>(4) Beck's Depression Inventory, applied before and after each training period