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NCT ID: NCT03230656 Completed - Clinical trials for Mild Traumatic Brain Injury

Cognitive-Communication Screening and Early Therapy for Adults With Mild TBI

Start date: January 2017
Phase: N/A
Study type: Interventional

Approximately 15-20% of patients diagnosed with a concussion/mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) have persistent symptoms that continue up to six months or longer. Typical problems identified by these patients include difficulty with memory, multi-tasking, the ability to complete tasks quickly, and higher executive functions (e.g., inhibition, initiation, insight, motivation) (Belanger & Vanderploeg, 2005; Mott, McConnon, & Rieger, 2012, Rabinowitz & Levin, 2014). If these symptoms persist they can not only affect thinking, but also communication abilities (e.g., verbal and nonverbal interactions, reading, and writing) (ASHA, 2007). Therefore, it is hypothesized that screening measures that evaluate both thinking and communication can better identify individuals at-risk for persistent symptoms at two week and four weeks post-injury. Also, if cognitive-communication therapy was administered earlier post-injury, then outcomes related to return to daily activities, work, and/or the academic setting could possibly change. This study intends to investigate the use of cognitive and communication screening measures for the identification of persistent symptoms and the provision of early cognitive-communication therapy if problems persist.

NCT ID: NCT03188016 Withdrawn - Clinical trials for Developmental Communication Disorders

Improvised Music to Enhance Intensive Interaction Version 1

Start date: October 23, 2017
Phase: N/A
Study type: Interventional

The project will investigate the effectiveness of a specialised musical-clinical approach used as an adjunct to an established non-musical intervention in the enhancement of interpersonal interaction. 6 school pupils with profound disability will be randomly allocated to experimental and control groups. The control group will receive only Intensive Interaction for 16 sessions. The experimental group will receive four sessions of Intensive Interaction, followed by twelve sessions of Intensive Interaction plus improvised music. Music therapists will follow a flexible manual written to ensure that their music supports the interaction between pupil and learning support assistant (LSA) without direct social interaction with either. Changes in capacity for interpersonal interaction will be assessed by a standardised assessment instrument, the Pre-Verbal Communication Schedule (PVCS), administered to both experimental and control groups before the 1st session and after the 16th session. There will also be a qualitative process study of the experimental group conducted by video observation by the researchers involved. The project is funded in equal shares by the Music Therapy Charity and Beacon Hill Academy.

NCT ID: NCT02973698 Completed - Parkinson Disease Clinical Trials

Benefit From the Chin Down Maneuver in the Swallowing Performance and Self-perception of Parkinson's Disease Patients

Start date: June 2014
Phase: N/A
Study type: Interventional

Objective: To verify the effectiveness of chin-down posture maneuver in swallowing therapy for Parkinson's disease (PD).

NCT ID: NCT02922309 Completed - Aged Clinical Trials

Comparing Telepractice and Conventional Face-to-face Voice Therapy

Start date: October 17, 2016
Phase: N/A
Study type: Interventional

People over 55 years are high-risk with voice disorders. Voice disordered elderly need vocal training in order to improve communication efficiency and quality of life. However, participation in vocal training of elderly is often restricted by motivation, time of practice, and availability to hospital, which thus reduces treatment effects. The purpose of the study is to design a telecommunication vocal training system and a vocal training program for voice disordered elderly in Taiwan. The investigator proposed a 3-year consecutive study, including a single-blind, randomized controlled trial, to test the hypothesis that vocal training via telepractice for voice disordered elderly are not inferior to the standard face to face training.

NCT ID: NCT02909088 Recruiting - Speech Disorders Clinical Trials

Efficacy and Tolerability of Ecopipam in Adults With Childhood Onset Fluency Disorder (Stuttering).

Start date: September 2016
Phase: Phase 2/Phase 3
Study type: Interventional

The primary objective of this study is to evaluate the efficacy and tolerability of ecopipam in reducing stuttering symptoms. It is hypothesized that ecopipam effectively reduces stuttering symptoms as measured on the SSI-IV total score, the CGI, SSS and OASES.

NCT ID: NCT02861599 Recruiting - Clinical trials for Reading Difficulties

Study of the Interest of Proprioceptive Therapy as a Complement to Speech Therapy in Children With Reading Difficulties

2000DYS9
Start date: September 2015
Phase: N/A
Study type: Interventional

Before proposing this observational study protocol, a randomized study was attempted. This consisted in proposing to families of children with difficulties in learning to read, via the speech therapists who were treating them, to take part in a randomized trial that compared speech therapy alone with a combination of speech therapy and proprioceptive therapy. If parents agreed in principle with the study, the child underwent a complementary speech therapy examination and was referred to the nearest investigating doctor for inclusion. However, this study had to be abandoned because of insufficient recruitment (2 patients included in 1 year). Despite the motivation and training of participating speech therapists, proposing a study based on randomization to families often in distress proved to be extremely difficult, as their conviction of the interest of proprioceptive therapy was greater than the available scientific evidence suggested. Direct recruitment by investigating ophthalmologists was not possible because they were consulted directly by the families so as to obtain proprioceptive therapy. The principle of randomization would thus not have been accepted. In light of the above, we decided to turn towards a non-randomized study comparing outcomes in two groups of children: - children who consulted an ophthalmologist who proposed proprioceptive therapy in Côte d'Or - children managed by one of the four speech therapists who do not propose proprioceptive therapy and who accepted the principle of the study.

NCT ID: NCT02801864 Enrolling by invitation - Aphasia Clinical Trials

tDCS as an Adjuvant to Intensive Speech Therapy for Chronic Post Stroke Aphasia

Start date: January 2016
Phase: N/A
Study type: Interventional

The purpose of this study is to determine if transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) in conjunction with intensive speech therapy will improve sentence production and word retrieval in individuals with chronic post stroke aphasia.

NCT ID: NCT02799017 Active, not recruiting - Aphasia Clinical Trials

Phonological Treatment Paired With Intensive Speech Therapy Promotes Reading Recovery in Chronic Aphasia

Start date: June 2015
Phase: N/A
Study type: Interventional

Participants will receive either intensive phonology or semantic feature analysis treatment for 16 weeks to improve naming, reading, and writing in individuals with chronic post-stroke aphasia.

NCT ID: NCT02612753 Recruiting - Aphasia Clinical Trials

Interest of Combining Speech Therapy With a Non-invasive Brain Stimulation (tDCS) for the Aphasic Patient

Taph
Start date: November 2015
Phase: N/A
Study type: Interventional

Aphasia is a frequent symptom after a left hemisphere stroke. It has serious impacts on social, family and professional lives. Aphasic patients need to be rehabilitated. To date, no pharmacological treatment being available only speech and language therapy (SLT) can improve patients, but its efficiency is moderate. Several studies have investigated the link between the recovery of language and neural reorganization. tDCs, a noninvasive technology for modulating neural excitability, could potentiate the effects of the SLT. About 25 studies in literature have described beneficial effects of tDCs coupled with SLT on aphasic patients. However to the investigator knowledge the feasibility of tDCs and speech therapy in clinical pathways has never been investigated. That is why the investigator propose to study in real care conditions how SLT proves more efficient on the recovery of language in a discursive assessment when coupled with active stimulation than with placebo stimulation.

NCT ID: NCT02439853 Completed - Clinical trials for Frontotemporal Dementia

Communication Bridge Speech Therapy Research Study

Start date: March 2013
Phase: N/A
Study type: Interventional

This is a study on Internet-based video-practice speech and language therapy for persons with primary progressive aphasia (PPA), behavioral-variant frontotemporal dementia (bvFTD), or related conditions.