NCT02999360

Aerobic Exercise and Aphasia Treatment

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 8 (actual)
• Sponsor: NYU Langone Health · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 90 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The purpose of the study is to determine if speech therapy can be enhanced by Aerobic Exercise (AE). Investigators will use a single subject design to determine if aphasia therapy result in greater gains when combined with aerobic exercise.

Detailed description

Aim 1: To test the feasibility of a research study that combines speech therapy with aerobic exercise (AE). Participants will be alternately assigned to receiving AE during during a 30 minute break from speech therapy. Aim 2: To test the preliminary efficacy of combining speech therapy with AE to promote language improvements in aphasia. These data will inform the design of a large, controlled clinical trial

Conditions

• Aphasia

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Language therapy	There will be three blocks of treatment, ideally three times a week 100 minutes per day. Treatment will target impairment-directed speech language therapy (SLT) approaches or compensatory-directed SLT in each of the three treatment blocks. Half of the participants will receive the impairment-directed SLT. Half of the participants, will receive treatment that will target compensatory-directed speech language therapy approaches that are focused on functional communication skills in the conversational context. Methods of treatment will include PACE (Promoting Aphasics Communicative Effectiveness (Davis, 2005), conversational coaching (Hopper et al., 2002), and supported conversation (Kagan et al., 2001). The clinician will model and encourage all (verbal and non verbal) modalities of communication.
BEHAVIORAL	Background Music	30 minutes background music only
BEHAVIORAL	Aerobic Exercise	There will be three blocks of treatment and the AE will take place for all participants during one or two treatment blocks (randomly assigned), threetimes a week (sessions are three times a week prior to speech therapy but may be one or two times a week if a session is missed or may be up to four or five times a week if one or two sessions are missed and rescheduled due to weather or other circumstances).

Timeline

• Start date: 2016-12-19
• Primary completion: 2019-09-20
• Completion: 2019-09-20
• First posted: 2016-12-21
• Last updated: 2024-11-12

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States