Visual Feedback of Tongue by Ultrasound Echography for Speech Trouble Rehabilitation

Speech Disorders Clinical Trial

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Official title:

Visual Feedback of Tongue by Ultrasound Echography for Speech Trouble Rehabilitation

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT02752425
• Other study ID #: 69HCL15_0736
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: May 30, 2016
• Est. completion date: May 15, 2018

Study information

• Verified date: January 2019
• Source: Hospices Civils de Lyon
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

Speech is a privileged means of communication for humans: its trouble can thus prove being extremely handicapping. Standard speech therapy is limited in some cases by the lack of sensory feedback available to the patient (hearing, surgery, neural damage, etc.).

The present study aims at quantify the contribution of the tongue articulatory visual feedback offered by ultrasound echography to speech trouble rehabilitation.

Two complementary populations will be studied : 30 adults with buccopharyngeal surgery, and 10 childrens with important speech troubles due to central nervous system damage.

The principle is to conduct standard speech therapy sessions, alternating series of sessions with the use of visual feedback and sessions without visual feedback.

The progress will be regularly measured by means of standard batteries of speech articulation tests.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 18
• Est. completion date: May 15, 2018
• Est. primary completion date: May 15, 2018
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: All
• Age group: 8 Years to 80 Years

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• Articulatory troubles needing speech therapy

• French mother tongue

• Adult patients [18 = age < 80 years] who underwent buccopharyngeal surgery after cancer diagnostic OR children [8 = age < 18 years] suffering from central nervous system damage

Exclusion Criteria:

• Incapacity to easily understand the speech therapist instructions

• People protected by the law

• People deprived from freedom by judiciary decision

• Potential allergy to the water-based conducting gel used to ensure good skin - probe contact

• Overweight if large fatty mass under chin

• Major edema under chin limiting echogenicity

• Non corrected vision or hearing problems

• For the adults: central or peripheral neural damage

• History of Ear, Nose, and Throat surgery or radiotherapy

• For the adults: isolated articulatory trouble, former articulatory trouble not treated, disfluency

• Massive orofacial dyspraxia

• Posture trouble

• Motor problem in upper limbs

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Speech Disorders

Intervention

Device:
• Visual feedback
Use of ultrasound echography for tongue articulatory visual feedback

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
France	Institut d'Education Motrice	Eybens
France	Centre Médical Rocheplane	Saint Martin d'Hères

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Hospices Civils de Lyon

Country where clinical trial is conducted

France, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	BECD test score	One of the primary outcome will be measured as the difference of increase of total BECD score between the therapy sessions with and without visual feedback.; BECD ("Batterie d'Evaluation Clinique de la Dysarthrie, Battery of Clinical Evaluation of Dysarthria") is a French speech articulation test.	4 months
Primary	MBLF test score	The second primary outcome will be measured as the difference of increase of total MBLF score between the therapy sessions with and without visual feedback.; MBLF ("Motricité Bucco-Linguo-Faciale, Motricity of Mouth, Tongue and Face") is a French speech articulation test.	4 months
Secondary	Perception test scores	The secondary outcome will be measured as the difference of increase of the scores of perception obtained by a jury listening to a selected set of patients' speech sounds between the therapy sessions with and without visual feedback. The speech sounds are those recorded during the batteries of speech articulation tests.	4 months