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Incorporating Strategy Training Into Naming Treatment in Aphasia

NCT05307796 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 10

Last updated 2024-03-13

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Summary

This study incorporates metacognitive strategy training into semantic feature analysis treatment. Semantic feature analysis treatment has a strong evidence base and capacity to improve word retrieval by encouraging circumlocution. Circumlocution facilitates self-cued naming and assists listener comprehension when naming fails. However, semantic feature analysis treatment does not include direct techniques to teach patients with aphasia to generalize the use of semantic feature analysis treatment's circumlocution procedure. Therefore, this study proposes that combining semantic feature analysis treatment and metacognitive strategy training will stimulate the semantic system and increase patients with aphasias' use of circumlocution across divergent contexts.

This study aims to measure the treatment's effect on naming accuracy for trained and untrained items. The study also aim to measure the treatment's effect on people with aphasias' knowledge of the strategy components and changes in verbalizations during retrieval attempts. The central hypothesis is that strategy training will increase patients with aphasias' explicit knowledge about circumlocution and enable them to use it to (1) self-facilitate naming, and (2) produce more informative connected speech.

Conditions

  • Aphasia

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Strategy training

The strategy training of focus in this study is metacognitive strategy training intended to build awareness of naming and methods to overcome instances of difficult naming. Strategy training involves (a) teaching the participant to identify instances in which they are unable to name objects, (b) learn a 6-feature framework (e.g. group, use, action) that has been identified to support semantic feature activation in aphasia, (c) learn and practice strategies to utilize the framework in instances of word finding difficulty

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • LSVT Global

    collaborator UNKNOWN

  • MGH Institute of Health Professions

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Sofia Vallila Rohter, PhD · MGH Institute of Health Professions

Study Design

Allocation
NA
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Model
SINGLE_GROUP

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Max Age
89 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2021-08-30
Primary Completion
2022-05-11
Completion
2022-05-11

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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