Clinical trials: Speech Impairment
Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis
Remote Speech and Swallowing Assessment in ALS
The investigators propose a longitudinal home study of ALS patients to measure the severity of speech and swallowing (bulbar) impairment via a smartphone-based, remote speech and swallow assessment (rSSA).
- Trial name
- NCT04889898
- Testing
- Digital recording of speech and swallow sounds using the Beiwe Digital Health App on a personal smartphone, Modified Barium Swallow Study (MBSS), Speech Intelligibility Test (SIT)
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 200 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Milton S. Hershey Medical Center
Hearing Impaired
Effects of Stimulus Validity on Speech Recognition
The effects of talker variability will be investigated with four groups of listeners (young normal-hearing; old normal-hearing; young hearing-impaired; old hearing-impaired).
- Trial name
- NCT00013364
- Testing
- Talker variability
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 80 people
- Sponsor
- US Department of Veterans Affairs
Stuttering
A Randomized, Placebo-Controlled Study to Evaluate the Efficacy and Tolerability of Asenapine With Flexible Dosing From 5mg to 20mg in Adults With Developmental Stuttering
The purpose of this research study is to find out the potential benefits and safety of asenapine (Saphris®) in adults who suffer from the developmental form of stuttering.
- Trial name
- NCT01684657
- Testing
- Asenapine
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 32 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of California, Irvine
Selective Mutism, Social Anxiety
Evaluating the Results of Physician and Parent Decisions to Treat Selective Mutism With Fluoxetine
The Department of Counseling, Educational Psychology, and Special Education and the Department of Psychiatry at Michigan State University have coordinated efforts to provide a diagnostic and treatment investigation for children…
- Trial name
- NCT05378711
- Testing
- Fluoxetine
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 6 people
- Sponsor
- Michigan State University
Head and Neck Cancer
Carcinologic Speech Severity Index
The hypothesis of the present study is that an automatic assessment technic can measure the impact of the speech disorders on the communication abilities giving a severity index of speech in patients treated for head and neck and…
- Trial name
- C2SI (NCT02875795)
- Testing
- automatic speech processing tool
- Volunteers
- 124 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University Hospital, Toulouse
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(PPA), Progressive Aphasia
Remotely-supervised Neuromodulation in PPA
The goal of this clinical trial is to learn whether home-based brain stimulation combined with virtual speech-language therapy can improve communication abilities in adults with logopenic variant primary progressive aphasia…
- Conditions
- Primary Progressive Aphasia(PPA), Progressive Aphasia, Progressive Aphasia in Alzheimer's Disease, Logopenic Progressive Aphasia (LPA)
- Trial name
- NCT07260253
- Testing
- Lexical Retrieval Cascade Treatment, Remotely Supervised Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation- Active
- Where
- 2 sites in United States
- Volunteers
- 80 people
- Sponsor
- Maya Henry
Aphasia
Strategies to Accommodate Reading (STAR)
People with aphasia often understand spoken utterances better than written sentences. They also benefit from having content appear in multiple rather than single modalities.
- Trial name
- STAR (NCT03312270)
- Testing
- Multimodality information comprehension
- Where
- 2 sites in United States
- Volunteers
- 152 people
- Sponsor
- Miami University
Primary Progressive Aphasia
Treating Primary Progressive Aphasia (PPA) Using tDCS
This is a double-blind, sham-controlled, crossover study in which subjects with the non-fluent/agrammatic and semantic variants of primary progressive aphasia (naPPA and svPPA, respectively) will undergo language testing and…
- Trial name
- NCT04566731
- Testing
- Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (tDCS), Modified Contraint-Induced Language Therapy (mCILT)
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 23 people
- Sponsor
- University of Pennsylvania
Aphasia
The Effect of Dual-target tACS Combined With Speech Training on Repetition Disorder After Stroke
This clinical trial aims to study whether dual-target transcranial alternating current stimulation (tACS) applied to the auditory and motor brain region can improve repetition disorder in people with stroke, and to evaluate the…
- Trial name
- NCT07347327
- Testing
- speech training, real tACS
- Where
- China
- Volunteers
- 28 people
- Sponsor
- Ke Dong, MD
Language and Speech Disorder, Psychiatric Nursing, Mental Health, Pet Therap
The Effect of Animal-Assisted Activity Programme Based on Human Caring Theory on Perceived Stress, Social Adaptation and Communication Skills of Children With Speech and Language Disorders
Animal-assisted practice is an intervention method explained with different mechanisms and theories that provides protection and development of health through human-animal interaction.
- Trial name
- NCT07512180
- Testing
- Nursing Care
- Where
- 2 sites in Turkey (Türkiye)
- Volunteers
- 36 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Şeyma Demiralay
Speech Intelligibility in Noise
Study of a Signal-processing Algorithm Aiming at Improving Speech-in-noise Intelligibility in Normal-hearing and Hearing-impaired Persons
Nearly half a billion people suffer from disabling hearing loss. The most common form of hearing loss in adults is age-related hearing loss (ARHL), which causes a reduced ability to understand speech in noisy environments.
- Trial name
- AUDIOCAP 1 (NCT04775810)
- Testing
- The device is an algorithm designed to enhance speech intelligibility of speech-in-noise signals
- Where
- France
- Volunteers
- 60 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Archean Technologies
Stuttering, Developmental
Investigating Non-invasive Brain Stimulation to Enhance Fluency in People Who Stutter
This study aims to test whether the application of transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) concurrent with fluency training results in improvements in speech fluency in adults with developmental stuttering, measured up to…
- Trial name
- INSTEP (NCT03335722)
- Testing
- Metronome-timed speech, Active tDCS
- Where
- United Kingdom
- Volunteers
- 43 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Oxford
Primary Progressive Aphasia
Effects of tDCS on Apraxia of Speech in Non-Fluent Primary Progressive Aphasia
Primary progressive aphasia (PPA) is a neurodegenerative disease that affects first and foremost language abilities. There are three different variants of PPA, each a relatively distinct speech and language profile.
- Trial name
- NCT04486586
- Testing
- Active tDCS plus Speech-Language Therapy
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Johns Hopkins University
Aphasia, TBI (Traumatic Brain Injury)
Electrical Stimulation in Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) Induced Aphasia
The aim of this study is to investigate whether a tDCS-accompanied intensive naming therapy leads to a performance improvement in patients with chronic aphasia induced by a moderate TBI
- Conditions
- Aphasia, TBI (Traumatic Brain Injury), tDCS
- Trial name
- NCT03882502
- Where
- Germany
- Volunteers
- 40 people
- Sponsor
- University Medicine Greifswald
Aphasia, Stroke
Melodic-Intonation-Therapy and Speech-Repetition-Therapy for Patients With Non-fluent Aphasia
We are doing this clinical trial in order to evaluate two different treatments for non-fluent aphasia: Melodic Intonation Therapy (MIT) and Speech Repetition Therapy (SRT).
- Conditions
- Aphasia, Stroke, Cerebrovascular Accident, Apoplexy
- Trial name
- NCT00903266
- Testing
- Melodic Intonation Therapy, Speech-Repetition-Therapy
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 30 people
- Sponsor
- Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Stutter, Stuttering, Adult
Organization and Development of Motor Cortical Circuits for Speech Production in Stuttering
The overall objective of this study is to examine inter effector areas (IEAs) activity and functional connectivity during continuous speech production in stuttering adults.
- Conditions
- Stutter, Stuttering, Adult, Stuttering, Stuttering, Developmental
- Trial name
- NCT07180628
- Testing
- Speech Production During functional magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 50 people
- Sponsor
- University of Michigan
Aphasia
Treatment Outcomes With tDCS in Post-Stroke Aphasia
The purpose this study is to test the utility of pairing external neuromodulation with behavioral language treatment to boost therapy outcomes and to investigate the mechanisms associated with recovery.
- Trial name
- NCT03929432
- Testing
- Active Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation with SLT
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 50 people
- Sponsor
- University of Arkansas
Aphasia
Genetic and Cognitive Predictors of Aphasia Treatment Response
Aphasia, or language impairment after a stroke, affects approximately 2 million people in the United States, with an estimated 180,000 new cases each year.
- Trial name
- NCT05179538
- Testing
- Cued picture-naming therapy
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 35 people
- Sponsor
- Ohio State University
Language Disorders, Aphasia
The Effect of Non-invasive Brian Stimulation on Language Production in Healthy Older Adults
The use of non-invasive brain stimulation techniques like transcranial direct-current stimulation (tDCS) for rehabilitation of language is a growing field that needs further studies to determine how best it can be used to enhance…
- Conditions
- Language Disorders, Aphasia, Stroke
- Trial name
- NCT04260815
- Testing
- Transcranial direct-current stimulation (tDCS)
- Where
- United Kingdom
- Volunteers
- 14 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- King's College London