NCT01483807

Treatments of Acquired Apraxia of Speech

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 20 (actual)
• Sponsor: VA Office of Research and Development · Federal
• Sex: All
• Age: 21 Years – 85 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

This study was designed to examine the effects of speech therapy on ability to produce speech sounds in persons with acquired apraxia of speech.

Detailed description

This study was designed to investigate the effects of Sound Production Treatment (SPT; a treatment for acquired apraxia of speech) on sound production accuracy in persons with chronic apraxia of speech (AOS). Organization of practice (blocked practice or randomized practice) will be manipulated in an effort to determine the most efficacious application of SPT. A combination of group and single-subject experimental designs wasl be completed with 20 speakers with AOS (2 groups of 10 participants).

Conditions

• Aphasia
• Apraxia of Speech
• Stroke

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Sound Production Treatment - Blocked	Sound Production Treatment is a treatment for acquired apraxia of speech. Combines therapist modeling, simultaneous production, articulatory instruction, feedback and repeated practice. SPT-Blocked entailed practicing all treatment targets blocked by target. SPT-Random entailed practicing all treatment targets in a non predictable, random order.
BEHAVIORAL	Sound Production Treatment - Random	A treatment for acquired apraxia of speech. Combines therapist modeling, simultaneous production, articulatory instruction, feedback and repeated practice. SPT-Random entailed practicing treatment targets in a non predictable order. SPT-Blocked entailed practicing treatment targets blocked by target.

Timeline

• Start date: 2011-08-01
• Primary completion: 2017-09-30
• Completion: 2017-12-31
• First posted: 2011-12-01
• Last updated: 2019-03-22
• Results posted: 2019-03-22

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States