This study is examining the use of intensive melodic intonation therapy and video feedback as a means of aiding individuals with nonfluent aphasia and co-occurring motor speech impairments. Individuals with nonfluent aphasia have difficulty with language, particularly with word retrieval.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
NA
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Enrollment
1
Melodic Intonation Therapy uses intonation and melody to aid individuals with aphasia with producing words.
Participant will view recording to judge correct and incorrect productions of trained words and to identify motor techniques increasing intelligibility
Nevada State University
Henderson, Nevada, United States
Intelligibility
Intelligibility as measured by percentage of consonants correct and by targets produced on trained and untrained stimuli. 20 trained and 20 untrained speech phrases that are relevant to the client (measured during reading and repetition tasks)
Time frame: From enrollment to 4 weeks post treatment
Apraxia Battery for Adults
A test to measure the presence and severity of apraxia in adults
Time frame: Baseline and one week following the end of treatment
Assessment of Intelligibility of Dysarthria Speech
A tool for quantifying single-word intelligibility, sentence intelligibility, and speaking rate of adult speakers with dysarthria
Time frame: Baseline and one week following the end of treatment
Longer Connected Speech Assessment
Change in Performance on Rainbow Passage- A public domain paragraph frequently used by speech-language pathologists to gather a speech sample of all phonemes for American English
Time frame: Baseline and one and four weeks following the end of treatment
Quality of Life with Dysarthria (QOLdys)
A reliable and valid tool to assess quality of life for patients with dysarthria.
Time frame: Baseline and four weeks following treatments.
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