Telerehabilitation for Aphasia (TERRA)
Trial statusRecruiting
Trial phaseNot applicable
Trial typeInterventional
Biological sexAll
Age21-80
SponsorUniversity of South Carolina
About this trial
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 criteria
Qualifiers
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.
Disqualifiers
Participants must not have previous neurological disease affecting the brain (e.g. history of traumatic brain injury).
Participants must not have severely limited speech production (severe unintelligibility) and/or auditory comprehension that interferes with adequate participation in the therapy provided (i.e., WAB-R Spontaneous Speech rating scale score of 0-1 or WAB-R Comprehension score of 0-1).
Participants must not have a history of stroke to the right hemisphere of the brain.
Participants must not have a bilateral, cerebellar or brainstem stroke.
Trial design
Treatments tested in this trial
- Semantically-focused therapy tasks
- Phonologically-focused therapy tasks
Treatment groups
100 Participants
are divided into 2 treatment groupsSponsors and collaborators
University of South Carolina
Lead sponsor
National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD)
Collaborator
Medical University of South Carolina
Collaborator
Source ClinicalTrials.gov