Visual Feedback of Tongue by Ultrasound Echography for Speech Trouble Rehabilitation
- Conditions
- Speech Disorders
- Interventions
- Device: Visual feedback
- Registration Number
- NCT02752425
- Lead Sponsor
- Hospices Civils de Lyon
- Brief Summary
Speech is a privileged means of communication for humans: its trouble can thus prove being extremely handicapping. Standard speech therapy is limited in some cases by the lack of sensory feedback available to the patient (hearing, surgery, neural damage, etc.).
The present study aims at quantify the contribution of the tongue articulatory visual feedback offered by ultrasound echography to speech trouble rehabilitation.
Two complementary populations will be studied : 30 adults with buccopharyngeal surgery, and 10 childrens with important speech troubles due to central nervous system damage.
The principle is to conduct standard speech therapy sessions, alternating series of sessions with the use of visual feedback and sessions without visual feedback.
The progress will be regularly measured by means of standard batteries of speech articulation tests.
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- COMPLETED
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 18
- Articulatory troubles needing speech therapy
- French mother tongue
- Adult patients [18 ≥ age < 80 years] who underwent buccopharyngeal surgery after cancer diagnostic OR children [8 ≥ age < 18 years] suffering from central nervous system damage
- Incapacity to easily understand the speech therapist instructions
- People protected by the law
- People deprived from freedom by judiciary decision
- Potential allergy to the water-based conducting gel used to ensure good skin - probe contact
- Overweight if large fatty mass under chin
- Major edema under chin limiting echogenicity
- Non corrected vision or hearing problems
- For the adults: central or peripheral neural damage
- History of Ear, Nose, and Throat surgery or radiotherapy
- For the adults: isolated articulatory trouble, former articulatory trouble not treated, disfluency
- Massive orofacial dyspraxia
- Posture trouble
- Motor problem in upper limbs
Study & Design
- Study Type
- INTERVENTIONAL
- Study Design
- PARALLEL
- Arm && Interventions
Group Intervention Description With visual feedback Visual feedback Session of speech therapy conducted with the additional use of articulatory visual feedback based on ultrasound echography, which allows to visualize the patient's tongue in real time on a computer screen
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method MBLF test score 4 months The second primary outcome will be measured as the difference of increase of total MBLF score between the therapy sessions with and without visual feedback.
MBLF ("Motricité Bucco-Linguo-Faciale, Motricity of Mouth, Tongue and Face") is a French speech articulation test.BECD test score 4 months One of the primary outcome will be measured as the difference of increase of total BECD score between the therapy sessions with and without visual feedback.
BECD ("Batterie d'Evaluation Clinique de la Dysarthrie, Battery of Clinical Evaluation of Dysarthria") is a French speech articulation test.
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Perception test scores 4 months The secondary outcome will be measured as the difference of increase of the scores of perception obtained by a jury listening to a selected set of patients' speech sounds between the therapy sessions with and without visual feedback. The speech sounds are those recorded during the batteries of speech articulation tests.
Trial Locations
- Locations (2)
Centre Médical Rocheplane
🇫🇷Saint Martin d'Hères, France
Institut d'Education Motrice
🇫🇷Eybens, France