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Filter by:The study plans to find the efficacy of a digital application/software, Al-lisan that adult stutters can be used for assessment and management of their stuttering. The Software has been developed with the help of a software engineer. After the current trends employed by Speech language pathologists explored through qualitative study design, the manual which is under development process through a focused group in which assessment and treatment options of the software were finalized. The next step will include the reliability and validity of the software for assessment and management of adult stutters followed by finding the efficacy of the software. As this Application will be in Urdu language it will assist less literate and those living in peripheries to assess or provide self-treatment options to the persons who stutter. It will allow adults for self-assessment and treatment options in Urdu language.
The proposed study aims to investigate the effect of combined transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) and behavioural speech training in improving speech fluency in Cantonese-speaking adults who stutter (AWS), and to examine its maintenance over a 6-week period.
Stuttering is a speech disorder that can cause disturbances in the timing and flow of speech. It is often accompanied not only by verbal difficulties but also by negative impact on several psycho-social aspects in the life of the people who stutter. Recently, clinical evidences have shown the effectiveness of Inquiry Based Stress Reduction (IBSR) technique to improve psychosocial symptoms and enhance well-being in clinical and non-clinical samples. IBSR, the clinical application of Byron Katie's "The Work", enables individuals to mindfully spot and investigate in a systematic and comprehensive manner thoughts that lead to stress and suffering by a series of questions and turnarounds. IBSR was found to have significantly positive influence on the quality of life, mental well-being and stress management in a variety of populations which suffer from elevated levels of stress, suffering, tension and anxiety, and to enhance resilience of non-clinical general population. In our research we hypothesized that: 1. Adults who stutter will have high levels of anxiety, and low levels of psychological flexibility and satisfaction with life. 2. IBSR intervention will improve experience of stuttering in adults who stutter. 3. IBSR will decrease anxiety levels and enhance psychological flexibility and satisfaction with life.
There has been limited research in the area of speech and language therapy awareness in Pakistan. The study aims to assess the efficacy of providing speech therapy awareness in private schools through a pre-post model. This Quasi experimental study will be a means of reaching out to schools and directly create awareness regarding the field and its scope. Pre-assessment will be carried out and after which a 45 minutes presentation will be conducted face to face or through a webinar as per school directives. The results will be analysed quantitatively and pre-post assessment of the participants will be measured.
This is a multicenter, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled, parallel-group, Phase 2 exploratory study in adult subjects with childhood onset fluency disorder.
The aim of this study is to determine the effectiveness of concurrent transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) and fluency training in adults with developmental stuttering. We examine the severity of stuttering to investigate the effect of treatnment. In the control group the anodal tDCS and DAF will applied on six consecutive days (1 milliampere [mA] for 20 mins per day), and the control group will received the sham stimulation and DAF for the same time. The severity of stuttering measured by means of tasks and questionnaires before and after treatment sessions and 6 weeks after intervention.
The primary objectives of this investigation were two-fold: 1) to investigate whether implementation of individualized desensitization exercises in an intensive stuttering group therapy for school-age children who stutter is superior to the standard application of intensive stuttering group therapy, 2) to examine the relationship between exhibited emotional reactivity (positive and negative affect) and stuttering recovery rates. Secondary objectives included: 1) investigating whether cognitive, affective, linguistic and social scores differ with treatment and, 2) heart rate and skin conductance changes associated with the stuttered utterance during intensive stuttering group therapy activities. Twelve children (8 to 12 years of age, with equal randomization [1:1]) randomized to two groups; 1) Study group, individualized desensitization exercises implemented in 2 weeks of intensive stuttering group therapy(n=6), 2) Control group, 2 weeks of standard intensive stuttering group therapy(n=6). Children were blinded to treatment arm. The first part of this study was a superiority trial of individualized desensitization exercises in intensive stuttering group therapy. The second part of the study was conducted with the study group during the daily therapy activities of intensive stuttering group therapy to investigate the emotion's effect on therapy outcomes with behavioral and physiological measures.
This study wants to determine the relationship between spontaneous hand gestures, stuttering and intelligibility in individuals with Down syndrome. One third of these individuals has fluency problems, such as stuttering. Gesture use appears to be a strength in individuals with Down syndrome. While they are able to compensate for their language problems, it is not clear if they also use gestures to compensate for their speech problems. Therefore, this study will observe the impact of their gesture use on the stuttering frequency/severity and on the intelligibility of children with Down syndrome. This study has three research questions. The first question is: Is there a difference in gesture use between individuals with Down syndrome who stutter and individuals with Down syndrome who do not stutter? The hypothesis is that the children who stutter will make more gestures to compensate for the fluency problems. The kind of spontaneous hand gestures will also be considered. These results will be compared to those of typical developing individuals. The second research question is: Are stuttering events that are accompanied by a gesture more intelligible than stuttering moments that are not accompanied by a gesture? Research showed that the use of signs has an positive impact on the speech intelligibility of individuals with Down syndrome. Here it is investigated if this is also true for spontaneous hand gestures. In case of better speech intelligibility it is investigated if the gain in intelligibility is caused by how recognizable the gesture is or by the effect of the gestures on speech itself. The effect of different types on the speech intelligibility of the stuttering events will also be investigated. Typically developing individuals who stutter will function as control group. The third research question is: 'Does gestural priming have an influence on the fluency of children with Down syndrome? Gestural priming is a secondary speech signal that gives feedback to the first speech signal by simultaneously mimicking the first speech signal. In this research a hand puppet will imitate the mouth movements of the participants. Next to that, the speech will be simultaneously be accompanied by beat gestures, meaningless up and downward movements. The hypothesis is that due to mirror neurons, the participants will become more fluent. Mirror neurons are neurons in the brain that can produce a neural basis for fluency by the perception of the second speech signal.
This study was conducted to determine the effectiveness of digital manipulation of thyroid cartilage for the management of stuttering in adult.There were three groups,Group A received Digital Manipulation of Thyroid cartilage (DMT),Group B received Fluency shaping Therapy(FST),Group C received combination of DMT,FST.
This study aims to test whether the application of transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) concurrent with fluency training results in improvements in speech fluency in adults with developmental stuttering, measured up to three months after the intervention.