Efficacy of Telerehabilitation in the Patients With Aphasia

Kaohsiung Veterans General Hospital

Status: Completed

Conditions: Aphasia

Treatments: Procedure: Smart Phone Based Assistive Speech Therapeutic System; Procedure: Mobile phone-based tele rehabilitation program

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02694133

VGHKS-CT11-06

Details and patient eligibility

About

The study will invite 30 patients to join, and they will be arranged in the face to face group and telerehabilitation group randomly.

In the telerehabilitation group, the investigators use the mobile device, which with the camera and speaker, for patients to practice the naming training at home, and assess the speech ability every 2-4weeks by speech therapist via telerehabilitation platform.

Concise Chinese Aphasia Test (CCAT) and ASHA FACS conceptual framework Test will be used as the assessment tool for evaluation speech ability and functional ability.

The investigators expect that patients can improve their speech ability, functional ability, and quality of life via telerehabilitation speech therapy.

And the investigators can establish the standard telerehabilitation speech therapy protocol for aphasia therapy.

Enrollment: 4 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 65 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• patients diagnosed as aphasia

Exclusion criteria

• poor auditory comprehension

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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4 participants in 1 patient group

Aphasia group

Experimental group

Description:

Aphasia

Treatment:

Procedure: Mobile phone-based tele rehabilitation program

Procedure: Smart Phone Based Assistive Speech Therapeutic System