Clinical trials: Language Impairment
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
Language Development Disorders, Down Syndrome
Strategies for Teaching Verbs
This study is designed to evaluate whether children with Down syndrome and children with typical development exhibit different levels of accuracy demonstrating novel verbs taught under three conditions: semantic cues (perform…
- Conditions
- Language Development Disorders, Down Syndrome, Child Language
- Trial name
- NCT03441685
- Testing
- Semantic cues (perform action), syntactic cues (sentence frame), or combined semantic and syntactic cues
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 44 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Hoarding Disorder
Imaginal Exposure for Hoarding Disorder
The present study will test a potential new treatment strategy, imaginal exposure, for hoarding disorder. Although cognitive behavioral therapy often reduces hoarding, some people do not want to start, or cannot handle, that…
- Trial name
- NCT03734705
- Testing
- Imaginal Exposure Writing, Neutral Writing
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 32 people
- Sponsor
- Stanford University
Childhood-Onset Fluency Disorder (Stuttering)
Effects of Ecopipam or Placebo in Adults With Stuttering (Speak Freely)
This is a multicenter, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled, parallel-group, Phase 2 exploratory study in adult subjects with childhood onset fluency disorder.
- Trial name
- NCT04492956
- Testing
- Ecopipam
- Where
- 9 sites in United States
- Volunteers
- 68 people
- Sponsor
- Emalex Biosciences Inc.
Aphasia
Determining Learning Ability in People With Aphasia
Aphasia is an impairment in the expression or comprehension of language that results from stroke, traumatic brain injury or progressive neurological disease.
- Trial name
- NCT05119023
- Testing
- SRT Observational Learning, AGL Observational Learning, AGL Rule-based Learning
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 18 people
- Sponsor
- MGH Institute of Health Professions
Developmental Language Disorder, Specific Language Impairment
Retrieval-Based Word Learning in Developmental Language Disorder
Children with developmental language disorder (DLD; also referred to as specific language impairment) experience a significant deficit in language ability that is longstanding and harmful to the children's academic, social, and…
- Conditions
- Developmental Language Disorder, Specific Language Impairment, Language Development
- Trial name
- NCT05325333
- Testing
- Retrieval-based word learning: Expanding retrieval practice schedule, Retrieval-based word learning: Standard retrieval practice schedule
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 28 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Purdue University
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
Primary Progressive Aphasia
Remotely Supervised Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (tDCS) for Primary Progressive Aphasia (PPA)
The purpose of this study is to establish the feasibility of a program of remotely supervised transcranial direct current stimulation (RS-tDCS) paired with language skills practice for people living with the semantic or logopenic…
- Trial name
- NCT05615922
- Testing
- Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (tDCS), Word-Naming Activity
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 11 people
- Sponsor
- NYU Langone Health
Aphasia
Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation and Constraint Induced Language Therapy for Chronic Aphasia
Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) has been demonstrated to improve language function in subjects with chronic aphasia in a number of small studies, many of which did not include a control group.
- Trial name
- NCT03651700
- Testing
- Active TMS, CILT
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 86 people
- Sponsor
- H. Branch Coslett
Stroke, Aphasia
Improving Aphasia Using Electrical Brain Stimulation
Language and communication are essential for almost every aspect of human life, but for people who have aphasia, a language processing disorder that can occur after stroke or brain injury, even simple conversations can become a…
- Trial name
- NCT04963803
- Testing
- Active transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS), Language Specific Attention Treatment
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 23 people
- Sponsor
- Syracuse University
Aphasia
Assessing an Animal-Assisted Treatment Program for Adults With Aphasia: The Persons With Aphasia Training Dogs Program
The lives of more than 2 million Americans are affected by aphasia, an acquired language impairment most commonly resulting from stroke that affects the ability to remember and express words.
- Trial name
- PATD (NCT04610346)
- Testing
- Persons with Aphasia Training Dogs Program
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 17 people
- Sponsor
- Albert Einstein Healthcare Network
Broca Aphasia
Speech Hero Home Therapy for Aphasia
The investigators will run an at-home usability study of a newly developed speech therapy app called Speech Hero with 10 individuals with Broca's aphasia in the chronic stage of stroke.
- Trial name
- NCT04471935
- Testing
- At home Speech Hero therapy app
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 10 people
- Sponsor
- Flint Rehabilitation Devices, LLC
Aphasia, Spatial Neglect
Prism Adaptation in Left Brain Stroke
Of the 15,000 Veterans who are hospitalized for stroke each year more than half experience spatial and motor impairments and pain.
- Conditions
- Aphasia, Spatial Neglect, Stroke
- Trial name
- NCT04387162
- Testing
- Prism Adaptation Treatment
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 13 people
- Sponsor
- VA Office of Research and Development
Primary Progressive Aphasia
Communication Bridge 2
This study will use a randomized controlled trial design to evaluate the effect of two evidence-based treatments for adults with mild Primary Progressive Aphasia (PPA).
- Trial name
- CB2 (NCT03371706)
- Testing
- Communication Bridge™, Evidence-Based Impairment Focused
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 190 people
- Sponsor
- University of Chicago
Mild Cognitive Impairment, Primary Progressive Aphasia
Home-based tDCS in Frontotemporal Dementia or Alzheimer's Disease
The primary objective of this research is to evaluate the effects of non-invasive brain stimulation and computerized cognitive training on executive functioning in individuals with Primary Progressive Aphasia (PPA), mild…
- Conditions
- Mild Cognitive Impairment, Primary Progressive Aphasia, Dementia
- Trial name
- NCT05978804
- Testing
- Computerized Cognitive Training, Active tDCS (tDCS) on DLPFC
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 5 people
- Sponsor
- Johns Hopkins University
Selective Mutism
What Treatment Works for Children With Selective Mutism?
The purpose of this pilot study is to explore the outcome of a manual based treatment for children with Selective Mutism
- Trial name
- NCT00554749
- Testing
- Interventions at home, in the kindergarten/school
- Where
- Norway
- Volunteers
- 7 people
- Sponsor
- Regionsenter for barn og unges psykiske helse
Developmental Language Disorder, Specific Language Impairment
Retrieval-Based Word Learning in Developmental Language Disorder: Verb Learning
Children with developmental language disorder (DLD; also referred to as specific language impairment) experience a significant deficit in language ability that is longstanding and harmful to the children's academic, social, and…
- Conditions
- Developmental Language Disorder, Specific Language Impairment, Language Development
- Trial name
- NCT06001866
- Testing
- Retrieval-based verb learning: Repeated Spaced Retrieval condition, Retrieval-based verb learning: Repeated Study condition
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 31 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Purdue University
Aphasia
TMS in Aphasia Recovery
Stroke often causes substantial problems in speaking or understanding speech. Treatments for these problems are currently very limited.
- Trial name
- NCT04777214
- Testing
- Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 24 people
- Sponsor
- University of Pennsylvania
Primary Progressive Aphasia
Treating Primary Progressive Aphasia (PPA) Using High-definition tDCS
This is a double-blind, sham-controlled, crossover study in which subjects with the non-fluent/agrammatic and logopenic variants of primary progressive aphasia (naPPA and lvPPA, respectively) will undergo language testing and…
- Trial name
- NCT04046991
- Testing
- high-definition transcranial direct current stimulation, modified constraint-induced language therapy
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 76 people
- Sponsor
- University of Pennsylvania
Aphasia
Effect of Verb Network Strengthening Treatment (VNeST) on Lexical Retrieval in Aphasia
The purpose of this study is to evaluate the effect of Verb Network Strengthening Treatment (VNeST) on the ability to produce sentences and connected speech in persons with aphasia.
- Trial name
- VNeST (NCT01300624)
- Testing
- Verb Network Strengthening Treatment
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 11 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- US Department of Veterans Affairs