MIT Intensive Treatment Study (MITTXS)

Nevada State University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Motor Speech; Stroke; Aphasia

Treatments: Behavioral: Melodic Intonation Therapy; Behavioral: Video Feedback Performance Review

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06213376

2312-0370

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study is examining the use of intensive melodic intonation therapy and video feedback as a means of aiding individuals with nonfluent aphasia and co-occurring motor speech impairments. Individuals with nonfluent aphasia have difficulty with language, particularly with word retrieval.

Enrollment: 1 patient

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Fluent English speakers
• Sustained a left-hemisphere stroke
• Presents with language and motor speech impairments

Exclusion criteria

• • History of learning disability prior to accident (per patient report)

  • Uncorrected auditory or visual impairments
  • Not meeting the criteria of stroke
  • Failure to provide evidence of stroke diagnosis (medical record history)
  • History of psychiatric disorder

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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1 participants in 1 patient group

Intervention

Experimental group

Description:

20 sessions/4 weeks: Video Feedback: S1) Participant (P1) views recording of previous session with the clinician \& judges whether the production is intelligible. S2) S1 \& the clinician identifies changes in motor movements that are influencing performance. S3+S4) S1+S2 \& given support from the clinician, P1 identifies techniques improving intelligibility \& modifies behavior accordingly. MIT (Albert et al., 1973; Helm-Estabrooks et al., 2014): Humming - Clinician introduces the target phrase by showing a visual cue, humming the phrase, then intoning the phrase while P1 taps left-hand. Simultaneous production with melody - The Clinician and P1 melodically produce the target phrase \& tap together. Simultaneous melodic production accompanied by gradual reduction of clinician support. Immediate repetition response to probe question - Following P1's successful repetition, the clinician melodically produces a question and P1 melodically produces the target.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Video Feedback Performance Review

Behavioral: Melodic Intonation Therapy