NCT01097161

Stuttering and Apraxia of Speech: the Efficacy of an Intervention Program

The Speech Prosody of People With Stuttering and Developmental Apraxia: the Efficacy of an Intervention Program

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 4 (actual)
• Sponsor: Federal University of Minas Gerais · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Subjects' utterances were submitted to acoustic analysis before and after the intervention program applied on prosodic basis.

Detailed description

The study has the aim of developing knowledge, methodology and technique in the prosody area, for its application on the speech therapy, with the assistance of a feedback system - with WinpitchPro (Philippe Martin). A database was constituted on the basis of a patterned corpus (EUROM1) by its translation, recording and editing on .wav format. Throughout model-sentences, an experimental intervention program initiates with the participation of 2 adults with stuttering problem and 2 with apraxia of speech. The efficacy of the therapeutic procedure is tested on the basis of the acoustical and the statistical analyses which have compared the first and the second speech samples taken before and after the twenty (20) therapy sessions held in a prosody approach only.

Conditions

• Stuttering
• Developmental Apraxia of Speech

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	speech therapy with the assistance of an acoustical analysis program	Two weekly speech sessions realized on individual basis for three months period

Timeline

• Start date: 2007-04-01
• Primary completion: 2007-10-01
• Completion: 2008-06-01
• First posted: 2010-04-01
• Last updated: 2010-04-02

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Brazil