NCT01315730

The Effects of Tactile Speech Feedback on Stuttering Frequency

• Status: Withdrawn
• Phase: Phase 1
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 0 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of Mississippi, Oxford · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The purpose of this research project is to test the effects of exposure of different forms of tactile speech feedback on overt stuttering frequency.

Detailed description

A new medical grade device (FDA - category exempt) has been newly designed and built at the University of Mississippi within the departments of Communication Sciences \& Disorders, Exercise Science, and Computer and Electrical Engineering. The device records either sound waves (via a small standard microphone) or three dimensional accelerometer data from the throat of a stuttering subject. This data is digitally signal processed, and "fed back" to the user in the form of a small vibrating disk/film that can be held between the fingers or mounted on the skin. This feedback data does not require the subject to attend to the incoming signal.

Conditions

• Stuttering

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DEVICE	Tactile Stimulation	See Arms

Timeline

• Start date: 2011-03-01
• First posted: 2011-03-15
• Last updated: 2014-05-12

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States