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Effects of Gesture Plus Verbal Treatment (GVT) in Cantonese Speakers With Aphasia

NCT07455162 · Status: RECRUITING · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 90

Last updated 2026-03-11

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Summary

This research aims to explore the relative efficacy of Verbal-only and GVT on naming difficulty in Cantonese-speaking people with aphasia (PWA).

The primary research question in this study is: "For Cantonese-speaking people with aphasia, what are the relative effects of verbal treatment compared to gesture plus verbal treatment (GVT) on verbal and gesture naming at different levels?"

People with aphasia will be engaged in a repeated measures experimental design. Participants will be engaged in two phases of training. In the first phase, participants will be assigned to receive verbal-only treatment. To minimize and prevent the carry-over effects caused by the first intervention, a one-month washout period will be implemented before the start of the second phase. After a washout period, participants will switch to GVT in the second phase.

Conditions

  • Aphasia
  • Gestures

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Verbal treatment

This study will involve the following naming interventions: 1) Semantic Features Analysis, 2) Modified Ortho-phonological cueing therapy and Phonological Component Analysis, and 3) Repetition with Cueing Hierarchy.

BEHAVIORAL

Gesture plus verbal treatment

This study will involve the following interventions: 1\) Combined Semantic and Gesture treatment, 2) Combined Phonological and Gesture treatment, and 3) Combined Repetition and Gesture treatment.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Hong Kong University

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Anthony Pak Hin Professor Kong · The University of Hong Kong

Study Design

Allocation
NON_RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
SINGLE
Model
SEQUENTIAL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2025-04-01
Primary Completion
2028-09-30
Completion
2028-09-30

Countries

  • Hong Kong

Study Locations

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