Clinical trials: Language
Reading Disability
Neurocognitive Factors in EdTech Intervention Response
The current project will carry out a large-scale, randomized controlled trial (RCT) to examine the effectiveness of a home-administered technology-based treatment for reading disability (GraphoLearn) in a diagnostically diverse…
- Trial name
- NCT04568824
- Testing
- GraphoLearn reading intervention, Math control intervention
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 315 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Connecticut
Strategy Training
Strategy Training for People With Aphasia After Stroke
One-third to one-half of acute strokes result in newly acquired cognitive impairments. Approximately 30 to 40% of people in the acute phase of stroke also sustain communication impairments.
- Trial name
- NCT03593876
- Testing
- Strategy Training
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 16 people
- Sponsor
- University of Pittsburgh
Dysarthria, Intelligibility, Speech
Perceptual Training to Improve Listeners' Ability to Understand Speech Produced by Individuals With Dysarthria
There exist very few effective treatments that ease the intelligibility burden of dysarthria. Perceptual training offers a promising avenue for improving intelligibility of dysarthric speech by offsetting the communicative burden…
- Trial name
- NCT04897711
- Testing
- Perceptual Training
- Where
- 2 sites in United States
- Volunteers
- 217 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Utah State University
Benign Epilepsy With Centrotemporal Spikes, Language Problems
Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation for BECTS
Benign epilepsy with centrotemporal spikes (BECTS) is the most common pediatric epilepsy syndrome. Affected children typically have a mild seizure disorder, but yet have moderate difficulties with language, learning and attention…
- Conditions
- Benign Epilepsy With Centrotemporal Spikes, Language Problems, Learning Disorders
- Trial name
- TMS4BECTS (NCT04325282)
- Testing
- Active rTMS
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 22 people
- Sponsor
- Stanford University
Aphasia
Phonomotor Treatment of Word Retrieval Deficits in Individuals With Aphasia
This is a behavioral speech therapy trial for individuals who have suffered a stroke on the left side of the brain and have difficulty speaking. The name of this disorder is called 'aphasia'.
- Trial name
- NCT01163461
- Testing
- speech therapy
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 28 people
- Sponsor
- VA Office of Research and Development
Inactivity
Culturally and Linguistically Adapted Physical Activity Intervention for Latinas
The overall goals of this renewal are to replicate the findings of Seamos Saludables in Latina women, increase the effectiveness of the intervention, and measure intervention-related changes in clinical biomarkers.
- Trial name
- NCT02630953
- Testing
- Original Tailored Intervention, Enhanced Tailored Intervention
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 214 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of California, San Diego
Aphasia, Stroke
Brain Biomarkers of Response to Treatment for Apraxia of Speech
The study will use MRI brain imaging to identify brain changes associated in stroke patients after they receive speech-language treatment for their speech difficulties.
- Trial name
- SPT (NCT02046941)
- Testing
- Speech Production Treatment
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 17 people
- Sponsor
- VA Office of Research and Development
Aphasia, Language Disorders
Word-Retrieval Treatment for Aphasia: Semantic Feature Analysis
The purpose of this investigation is to further develop and test a treatment for word-finding problems in aphasia. The treatment is designed to strengthen meaning associations within categories of words (e.g., animals, tools…
- Conditions
- Aphasia, Language Disorders, Speech Disorders
- Trial name
- NCT00125242
- Testing
- Semantic Feature Analysis (SFA)Training
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 110 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- US Department of Veterans Affairs
Aphasia
Brain Stimulation and Aphasia Treatment
The purpose of this study is to assess the changes in language processing of patients with chronic, post-stroke aphasia following the application of brain stimulation.
- Trial name
- tDCS (NCT01686373)
- Testing
- Activa Dose II Real tDCS
- Where
- 2 sites in United States
- Volunteers
- 74 people
- Sponsor
- University of South Carolina
Aphasia, Aphasia Non Fluent
Speech Entrainment for Aphasia Recovery
After a stroke, many people experience a language impairment called aphasia. One of the most debilitating types of aphasia is non-fluent aphasia.
- Conditions
- Aphasia, Aphasia Non Fluent, Stroke
- Trial name
- SpARc (NCT04364854)
- Testing
- SET (Speech Entrainment Therapy) 3 weeks, SET (Speech Entrainment Therapy) 4.5 weeks, SET (Speech Entrainment Therapy) 6 weeks
- Where
- 3 sites in United States
- Volunteers
- 80 people
- Sponsor
- Medical University of South Carolina
Primary Progressive Aphasia
Transmagnetic Stimulation Pilot in Primary Progressive Aphasia
Frontotemporal degeneration (FTD) is a non-Alzheimer's dementia that is the 2nd most common cause of dementia in the United States.
- Trial name
- TMS in PPA (NCT05860647)
- Testing
- Intermittent theta burst stimulation
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 3 people
- Sponsor
- HealthPartners Institute