Center for the Study of Aphasia Recovery (C-STAR): Telerehabilitation for Aphasia (TERRA)

Status: Recruiting
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Intervention Type: Behavioral
Study Type: Interventional
Study Phase: Not Applicable
SUMMARY

Speech-language therapy is generally found to be helpful in the rehabilitation of aphasia. However, not all patients with aphasia have access to adequate treatment to maximize their recovery. The goal of this project is to compare the efficacy of telerehabilitation or Aphasia Remote Therapy (ART) to the more traditional In-Clinic Therapy (I-CT).

Eligibility
Participation Requirements
Sex: All
Minimum Age: 21
Maximum Age: 80
Healthy Volunteers: f
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• Participants must have sustained a left hemisphere ischemic or hemorrhagic stroke at least 12 months prior to enrollment.

• Participants must primarily speak English for at least the past 20 years.

• Participants must be capable of giving informed consent or indicating another to provide informed consent.

• Participants must be between 21-80 years of age.

• Participants must be magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) compatible (e.g., no metal implants, not claustrophobic) on a 3-Tesla (3T) scanner.

Locations
United States
South Carolina
University of South Carolina Aphasia Lab
RECRUITING
Columbia
Contact Information
Primary
Sara Sayers, M.S.
ssayers@mailbox.sc.edu
803-777-2693
Backup
Kelli Powell, B.S.
KELLIAP@mailbox.sc.edu
803-777-5051
Time Frame
Start Date: 2021-05-05
Estimated Completion Date: 2026-03-31
Participants
Target number of participants: 100
Treatments
Experimental: Aphasia Remote Therapy (ART)
All participants in this group will receive 3 weeks of daily semantically-focused treatment (semantic feature analysis, semantic barrier task and verb network strengthening therapy) and 3 weeks of daily phonologically-focused treatment (phonological components analysis, phonological production task, phonological judgment task). Participants will be randomized to order of treatment.~All treatment will be done remotely with a speech-language pathologist through an online platform using therapy applications. Participants will be provided with teletherapy kits (including an Internet hotspot if needed) to complete the therapy tasks.
Active_comparator: In-Clinic Therapy (I-CT)
All participants in this group will receive 3 weeks of daily semantically-focused treatment (semantic feature analysis, semantic barrier task and verb network strengthening therapy) and 3 weeks of daily phonologically-focused treatment (phonological components analysis, phonological production task, phonological judgment task). Participants will be randomized to order of treatment.~All treatment will be done in person with a speech-language pathologist at the UofSC Aphasia Lab.
Authors
Julius Fridriksson
Related Therapeutic Areas
Sponsors
Collaborators: Medical University of South Carolina, National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD)
Leads: University of South Carolina

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