Intensive Language-Action Therapy (ILAT): How does high training intensity affect speech and language recovery in stroke patients with chronic aphasia?
Not Applicable
- Conditions
- F80.1Expressive language disorder
- Registration Number
- DRKS00007829
- Lead Sponsor
- Freie Universität Berlin Brain Language Laboratory
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Complete
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 30
Inclusion Criteria
Patients are able to give informed consent;
diagnosis of aphasia;
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 Standardized aphasia battery: Aachen Aphasia Test (AAT), performed at four different points in time:<br><br>(T0) 2 weeks before the onset of the treatment<br><br>(T1) 1 day prior to the onset of the treatment<br><br>(T2) 2 weeks after the onset of the treatment<br><br>(T3) 4 weeks after the onset of the treatment (end of therapy)
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Questionnaires:<br>Motivation;<br>Beck's Depression Inventory (BDI);<br>Selbstwirksamkeitserwartung (SWE);<br>Fragebogen zur Sozialen Unterstützung (FSozU);<br>Montgomery-Åsberg Depression Rating Scale (MADRS);<br>Activities of Daily Living (ADL);<br>Communication Activity Log (CAL)<br><br>Communicative-pragmatic request and naming task:<br>Action Communication Test (ACT)<br><br>IQ assessment:<br>Raven's Standard Progressive Matrices (SPM)<br><br>EEG:<br>Lexical decision task and oddball paradigm; dependent variables: event-related potentials, error rates, reaction times<br><br>fMRI:<br>Lexical decision task; dependent variables: event-related potentials, error rates, reaction times<br><br>Each clinical variable is assessed at four different points in time (T0, T1, T2, T3; see above).