Clinical trials: Speech Disorders
Hoarding Disorder, Hoarding
Hoarding Disorder Treatment With Virtual Reality
This study explores whether a facilitated peer support group called Buried in Treasures (BIT) and a virtual reality decluttering practice can help individuals with clutter challenges.
- Conditions
- Hoarding Disorder, Hoarding, Clutter
- Trial name
- HDVR (NCT03828461)
- Testing
- Facilitated group therapy with behavioral practice; 16 weeks
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 13 people
- Sponsor
- Stanford University
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
Speech Sound Disorder
Correcting Residual Errors With Spectral, Ultrasound, Traditional Speech Therapy
Children with speech sound disorder show diminished accuracy and intelligibility in spoken communication and may thus be perceived as less capable or intelligent than peers, with negative consequences for both socioemotional and…
- Trial name
- C-RESULTS (NCT03737318)
- Testing
- Biofeedback-ultrasound, Biofeedback--visual-acoustic, Traditional articulation treatment
- Where
- 2 sites in United States
- Volunteers
- 108 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- New York University
Hearing Loss, Sensorineural
Evaluation of Speech-in-noise Performance in Cochlear Implant Recipients With a CROS Device on the Contralateral Ear
Speech understanding in noise remains the greatest challenge for people using cochlear implants, particularly when the speech of interest comes from the side of the head opposite to the implant.
- Trial name
- NCT03867396
- Testing
- CROS, Hearing Aid, Cochlear Implant Alone
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 40 people
- Sponsor
- University of Colorado, Denver
Rehabilitation of Speech and Language Disorders, Speech Disorders
MyoVoice to Restore Natural, Hands-free Communication to Individuals With Vocal Impairments
This study will evaluate the ability of MyoVoice to replace natural speech. Referred to generally as an Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) device, MyoVoice uses electrical signals recorded non-invasively from speech…
- Conditions
- Rehabilitation of Speech and Language Disorders, Speech Disorders, Speech, Alaryngeal, Communication Aids for Disabled
- Trial name
- NCT04762043
- Testing
- Experimental System: MyoVoice, Reference System: Electrolarynx
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 30 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Altec Inc.
Hearing Loss, Sensorineural, Dysarthria
Application of Ideal Binary Masking to Disordered Speech
Dysarthria and hearing loss are communication disorders that can substantially reduce intelligibility of speech and the addition of background noise adds a further challenge.
- Trial name
- NCT05244603
- Testing
- Ideal binary mask
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 435 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Utah State University
Speech Sound Disorder
staRt: Enhancing Speech Treatment With Smartphone-delivered Biofeedback
Previous research suggests that biofeedback can outperform traditional interventions for RSE, but no controlled studies have tested this hypothesis in the context of app-delivered biofeedback.
- Trial name
- staRt (NCT04474691)
- Testing
- Traditional articulation treatment, Visual-acoustic biofeedback
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 15 people
- Sponsor
- New York University
Aphasia, Primary Progressive Aphasia
CB3 Pilot (Communication Bridge: A Person-centered Internet-based Intervention for Individuals With Primary Progressive Aphasia)
This study will evaluate evidence-based treatments for adults with mild Primary Progressive Aphasia (PPA). The aim of the study is to help identify efficacious communication and quality of life interventions for those with PPA…
- Conditions
- Aphasia, Primary Progressive Aphasia, Dementia, Communication
- Trial name
- CB3 Pilot (NCT05697380)
- Testing
- Communication Bridge™
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 8 people
- Sponsor
- University of Chicago
Primary Progressive Aphasia
Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation for Primary Progressive Aphasia
In the present sham-controlled study, the investigators examine whether tDCS could be used to enhance language abilities (e.g., picture naming) in individuals with primary progressive aphasia (PPA) primarily characterized by…
- Trial name
- NCT02928848
- Testing
- transcranial direct current stimulation
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 16 people
- Sponsor
- University of Pennsylvania
Hearing Loss, Age-Related
Effects of PSAPs on Speech Processing
Mild to moderate hearing loss remains undertreated, largely because of the high cost of hearing aids. A promising and much less expensive alternative is the use of personal sound amplification products (PSAPs), which are…
- Trial name
- NCT05076045
- Testing
- Personal sound amplification products
- Where
- Canada
- Volunteers
- 32 people
- Sponsor
- Rotman Research Institute at Baycrest
Fibromyalgia
Drug and Talk Therapy for Fibromyalgia
Fibromyalgia Syndrome (FMS) afflicts 2% of the U.S. population and have huge individual and societal costs in terms of quality of life, social and work functioning, health care use, and lost productivity.
- Trial name
- NCT01038323
- Testing
- CBT and milnacipran, Educational with milnacipran
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 58 people
- Sponsor
- Indiana University
Hearing Impairment
Wide-Bandwidth Open Canal Hearing Aid For Better Multitalker Speech Understanding
Our goal is to design and build a new hearing aid system, which mitigates the most common complaints that hearing aid users have.
- Trial name
- NCT00582946
- Testing
- Hearing Aid
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 16 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- EarLens Corporation
Aphasia, Non-fluent Aphasia
Combining tDCS and CILT in Non-fluent Aphasia
The long-term goal of this work is to determine if combining a highly intensive, task-specific behavioral language intervention with modulation of the efferent cerebellar-cortical pathway using transcranial direct current…
- Conditions
- Aphasia, Non-fluent Aphasia, Stroke, Brain Injuries
- Trial name
- NCT05561400
- Testing
- tDCS
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 10 people
- Sponsor
- University of Minnesota
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
Stuttering, Developmental
Non-invasive Brain Stimulation in Adults Who Stutter
Research studies in stuttering have shown that activity patterns in certain brain areas differ in people who stutter compared to people who do not stutter when speaking.
- Trial name
- NCT03437512
- Testing
- Anodal tDCS, Fluency training
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 29 people
- Sponsor
- University of Michigan
Language Development Disorders, Speech Sound Disorder
Manipulating Linguistic Complexity to Improve Child Language Treatment Outcomes
Phonological disorder (PD) and specific language impairment (SLI) directly impact a child's ability to communicate and are among the most prevalent developmental disorders.
- Trial name
- NCT03977701
- Testing
- Phonological treatment, Morpheme treatment
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 41 people
- Sponsor
- San Diego State University
Aphasia, Cerebrovascular Stroke
Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation to Improve Speech in Aphasia
The purpose of this study is to examine whether repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) can be used to improve speech in chronic stroke patients with aphasia. Aphasia patients can have problems with speech production.
- Trial name
- NCT00608582
- Testing
- Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation, Repetitive
- Where
- 3 sites in United States
- Volunteers
- 63 people
- Sponsor
- Boston University
Unrecognized Condition
Preoxygenation With Optiflow™ - the Effect of Speech on Lung Oxygenation.
If a patient speaks during the process of preoxygenation with high-flow nasal oxygen via the Optiflow™ system, is the efficacy reduced as measured by end-tidal lung oxygen content?
- Trial name
- NCT03766646
- Testing
- Optiflow
- Where
- United Kingdom
- Volunteers
- 34 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust
Aphasia
Transcranial Direct Stimulation (tDCS) and Behavioral Intervention in Aphasia
We hypothesize patients who have difficulty with word recall (naming pictures) due to a stroke will experience greater benefit in word recall after receiving a combination of transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) and…
- Trial name
- NCT02226796
- Testing
- Transcranial direct current stimulation
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 3 people
- Sponsor
- University of Minnesota
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