Aphasia Rehabilitation: Modulating Cues, Feedback & Practice

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

COMPLETED

Clinical Phase

NA

Total Enrollment

16 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2011-06-30

Study Completion Date

2018-04-30

Brief Summary

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The purpose of this study is to evaluate how changing different conditions of the speech-language treatment (such as cues, feedback, complexity and practice schedule) affects the language outcome of study subjects with aphasia (i.e., difficulty with the comprehension and expression of spoken and written language) following a stroke.

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Detailed Description

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Stroke is the third leading cause of death and the most common cause of disability in the United States. According to the American Stroke Association, the prevalence of stroke in the U.S. is approximately 4.8 million with approximately 700,000 additional strokes occurring annually. Approximately 150,000 to 250,000 stroke survivors becoming severely and permanently disabled each year.

A common neurological deficit among stroke survivors, and thus a substantial contributor to post-stroke disability, is aphasia. The loss of, or difficulty with language is extremely debilitating. Recently, there has been an emphasis on the need for intensive aphasia treatment in order to make the long-term neuroplastic changes associated with recovery. However, specific information regarding effective learning parameters is limited.

A number of variables and practice conditions, deriving from motor learning theory, potentially impact the rehabilitation process. Several of these variables have begun to be addressed in the literature, but with conflicting or scant evidence to date. Variables include the type and degree of external cueing, low versus high feedback conditions, task complexity, and practice distribution and schedule.

The purpose of this study is to:

* Modulate variables of cuing, feedback and script complexity that potentially affect treatment outcomes, and measure their effects on acquisition, maintenance and generalization of script learning. These investigations are conducted as separate studies, with the first study being a cross-over study investigating cuing and the second study being a 2x2 factorial design investigating feedback and complexity.
* Modify and optimize AphasiaScripts-an existing treatment program having experimental support for its efficacy-by incorporating these findings.
* Conduct a clinical trial, incorporating the optimized AphasiaScripts program, in order to measure the effect of massed vs distributed practice, and blocked vs random practice schedules, on the acquisition, maintenance and generalization of script learning.

Measures will include independent pre-and post assessments of acquisition, maintenance and generalization of script learning as well as dependent item/cue level measures of progress.

Results and computational models of acquisition, maintenance and generalization will contribute new evidence to support not just the efficacy and delivery of AphasiaScripts, but also the application of practice principles to aphasia treatment in general.

The first part of the study - a cross-over study that evaluates error-free versus error-reducing script training has been done. Below is a description of the second part of the study which evaluates feedback and script complexity.

Conditions

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Aphasia Stroke

Study Design

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Allocation Method

RANDOMIZED

Intervention Model

PARALLEL

Primary Study Purpose

TREATMENT

Blinding Strategy

SINGLE

Outcome Assessors

Study Groups

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High complexity, high feedback

Scripts are one grade level higher than the typical script that would be provided for the severity of aphasia; there is an opportunity for the participant to listen to his/her production and assess performance.

Group Type ACTIVE_COMPARATOR