Stuttering and Apraxia of Speech: the Efficacy of an Intervention Program

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Completed

• Conditions: Stuttering; Developmental Apraxia of Speech
• Interventions: Behavioral: speech therapy with the assistance of an acoustical analysis program

• Registration Number: NCT01097161
• Lead Sponsor: Federal University of Minas Gerais

Brief Summary

Subjects' utterances were submitted to acoustic analysis before and after the intervention program applied on prosodic basis.

Detailed Description

The study has the aim of developing knowledge, methodology and technique in the prosody area, for its application on the speech therapy, with the assistance of a feedback system - with WinpitchPro (Philippe Martin). A database was constituted on the basis of a patterned corpus (EUROM1) by its translation, recording and editing on .wav format. Throughout model-sentences, an experimental intervention program initiates with the participation of 2 adults with stuttering problem and 2 with apraxia of speech. The efficacy of the therapeutic procedure is tested on the basis of the acoustical and the statistical analyses which have compared the first and the second speech samples taken before and after the twenty (20) therapy sessions held in a prosody approach only.

Study Timeline

• Status Verified: 2007-04
• Study Start: 2007-04
• Primary Completion: 2007-10
• Study Completion: 2008-06
• Study First Submitted: 2010-03-31
• Study First Submitted QC: 2010-03-31
• Study First Posted: 2010-04-01
• Last Update Submitted: 2010-04-01
• Last Update Posted: 2010-04-02

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 4

Inclusion Criteria

• Clinical diagnosis of stuttering
• Clinical diagnosis of apraxia of speech
• 18 years of age or older
• Portuguese native language
• Agreement by the participant to enroll on 20 therapy sessions scheduled in a 3 month period

Exclusion Criteria

• History of major medical illness unrelated to primary diagnosis of developmental stuttering and developmental apraxia of speech
• Significant abnormalities on general physical and neurological examination unrelated to primary diagnosis

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: SINGLE_GROUP

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Speech treatment on prosodic basis	speech therapy with the assistance of an acoustical analysis program	Patients receive 20 therapy sessions over a course of 3 months, with one double session per week.

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

R. Grão Pará, 85/404; 🇧🇷 Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil