Stuttering and Apraxia of Speech: the Efficacy of an Intervention Program (SAS:EIP)

April 1, 2010 updated by: Federal University of Minas Gerais

The Speech Prosody of People With Stuttering and Developmental Apraxia: the Efficacy of an Intervention Program

Subjects' utterances were submitted to acoustic analysis before and after the intervention program applied on prosodic basis.

Study Overview

Status

Completed

Conditions

Intervention / Treatment

Detailed Description

The study has the aim of developing knowledge, methodology and technique in the prosody area, for its application on the speech therapy, with the assistance of a feedback system - with WinpitchPro (Philippe Martin). A database was constituted on the basis of a patterned corpus (EUROM1) by its translation, recording and editing on .wav format. Throughout model-sentences, an experimental intervention program initiates with the participation of 2 adults with stuttering problem and 2 with apraxia of speech. The efficacy of the therapeutic procedure is tested on the basis of the acoustical and the statistical analyses which have compared the first and the second speech samples taken before and after the twenty (20) therapy sessions held in a prosody approach only.

Study Type

Interventional

Enrollment (Actual)

4

Phase

  • Not Applicable

Contacts and Locations

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Study Locations

  • Brazil
    • Minas Gerais
      • Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil, 30150340
        • R. Grão Pará, 85/404

Participation Criteria

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Eligibility Criteria

Ages Eligible for Study

18 years and older (ADULT, OLDER_ADULT)

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Genders Eligible for Study

All

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

  • Clinical diagnosis of stuttering
  • Clinical diagnosis of apraxia of speech
  • 18 years of age or older
  • Portuguese native language
  • Agreement by the participant to enroll on 20 therapy sessions scheduled in a 3 month period

Exclusion Criteria:

  • History of major medical illness unrelated to primary diagnosis of developmental stuttering and developmental apraxia of speech
  • Significant abnormalities on general physical and neurological examination unrelated to primary diagnosis

Study Plan

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How is the study designed?

Design Details

  • Primary Purpose: TREATMENT
  • Allocation: NA
  • Interventional Model: SINGLE_GROUP
  • Masking: NONE

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm
Intervention / Treatment
Experimental: Speech treatment on prosodic basis
Patients receive 20 therapy sessions over a course of 3 months, with one double session per week.
Behavioral: speech therapy with the assistance of an acoustical analysis program
Two weekly speech sessions realized on individual basis for three months period

Collaborators and Investigators

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Sponsor

Federal University of Minas Gerais

Collaborators

Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do estado de Minas Gerais

Publications and helpful links

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Study record dates

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Study Major Dates

Study Start

April 1, 2007

Primary Completion (Actual)

October 1, 2007

Study Completion (Actual)

June 1, 2008

Study Registration Dates

First Submitted

March 31, 2010

First Submitted That Met QC Criteria

March 31, 2010

First Posted (Estimate)

April 1, 2010

Study Record Updates

Last Update Posted (Estimate)

April 2, 2010

Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria

April 1, 2010

Last Verified

April 1, 2007

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Other Study ID Numbers

  • SHA 0097/06

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