Toward a Dysarthria Management Model for Linguistically and Culturally Diverse Groups: Foreign Born Immigrants
Status: Recruiting
Location: See location...
Intervention Type: Behavioral
Study Type: Interventional
Study Phase: Not Applicable
SUMMARY
This study develops and conduct a small-scale clinical trial study in which the linguistic and cultural diversity of the participants is considered. Speech therapy and counseling services are provided to both patients with Parkinson\'s disease and their caregivers.
Eligibility
Participation Requirements
Sex: All
Minimum Age: 25
Maximum Age: 85
Healthy Volunteers: f
View:
• Medical diagnosis of PD
• No history of other neurological disease
• Native speaker of Korean
• Age between 25 and 85
• Diagnosis of dysarthria secondary to PD from an SLP
• Self-reported typical hearing
• Access to high-speed internet for therapy sessions
Locations
United States
Florida
Florida State University
RECRUITING
Tallahassee
Contact Information
Primary
Yunjung Kim
ykim19@fsu.edu
8506454804
Backup
Eun-Jeong Lee
elee20@iit.edu
Time Frame
Start Date: 2024-08-05
Estimated Completion Date: 2026-02-28
Participants
Target number of participants: 32
Treatments
Experimental: Intervention: Behavioral, remote speech rehabilitation and counseling
Speech therapy will replicate the dose prescribed by many treatment programs including LSVT LOUD, LSVT ARTIC and Be Clear, consisting of 16 sessions of 50-60 minutes duration delivered over four weeks. Participants will also be set 15 to 20 minutes of daily home practice. Family education/training will take place once a week over 4 weeks, including two components: family counseling (30 min) and family conversation training (30 min). Family counseling aims to increase the PD families' knowledge about PD in general and to identify goals and potential solutions to problems which cause emotional turmoil. Family conversation training which aims to increase the PD families' knowledge about PD-related communication problems and to raise awareness of their communication patterns, and to support the development of functional strategies. All activities will remotely occur (using Zoom).
No_intervention: No Intervention:Waitlist control
No intervention programs (speech therapy, counseling) will be provided.
Related Therapeutic Areas
Sponsors
Leads: Florida State University