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Perceptual Training to Improve Listeners' Ability to Understand Speech Produced by Individuals With Dysarthria

NCT04897711 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 217

Last updated 2024-09-19

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Summary

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 from the speaker with dysarthria on to their primary communication partners-family, friends, and caregivers. This project, utilizing advanced explanatory models, will permit identification of speaker and listener parameters, and their interactions, that allow perceptual training paradigms to be optimized for intelligibility outcomes in dysarthria rehabilitation. This work addresses this critical gap in clinical practice and sets the stage for extension of dysarthria management to listener-targeted remediation-advancing clinical practice and enhanced communication and quality of life outcomes for this population.

Conditions

  • Dysarthria
  • Intelligibility, Speech

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Perceptual Training

Each listener is familiarized/trained with a single speaker with dysarthria. Pretest/posttest transcription data will be used to build explanatory models of intelligibility improvement.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD)

    collaborator NIH

  • Utah State University

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Stephanie A Borrie, PhD · Utah State University

  • Kaitlin L Lansford, PhD · Florida State University

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Max Age
80 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2021-04-26
Primary Completion
2023-07-01
Completion
2023-07-01

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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