NCT03662243

Treatment for Reading and Writing Deficits Following Acquired Brain Injury

• Status: Completed
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 2 (actual)
• Sponsor: Quality Living, Inc. · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 14 Years – 70 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Many people with acquired brain injuries have deficits in reading decoding, reading comprehension, and written expression. Alexia is a phenomenon in which a person who previously could read has trouble doing so after having sustained a brain injury; likewise, agraphia is an acquired writing problem affecting one or more aspects of written communication. Alexia and agraphia sometimes co-occur with one another and/or with other language challenges, but they can also occur as isolated phenomena. Methods to treat alexia and agraphia often focus on single intervention techniques that address aspects of reading or writing in isolation-such as matching written and spoken letters or letter sounds, performing choral reading, tracing letters, etc. Existing research suggests that the effectiveness of these techniques is limited. However, when used in combination, such techniques may promote improved reading and written communication skills. As such, the purpose of this research is to determine the extent to which a multicomponent intervention program improves the reading and writing capabilities of people with acquired alexia and/or agraphia.

Conditions

• Acquired Brain Injury
• Alexia
• Agraphia

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Multicomponent reading and writing treatment	Intervention procedures incorporated into the program include drilling on sight words to improve immediate recognition of common words; engaging in Multiple Oral Reading procedures to increase reading fluency; practicing oral spelling of sight words to improve spelling accuracy; generating written sentences to improve accurate spelling and use of written conventions (e.g., punctuation, capitalization); and summarizing and subsequently writing sentences about read material to establish strategies to enhance reading comprehension and promote written expression.

Timeline

• Start date: 2018-08-30
• Primary completion: 2020-09-15
• Completion: 2020-09-15
• First posted: 2018-09-07
• Last updated: 2021-03-10

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States