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

Federal University of Minas Gerais

Status

Completed

Conditions

Developmental Apraxia of Speech

Stuttering

Treatments

Behavioral: speech therapy with the assistance of an acoustical analysis program

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT01097161

SHA 0097/06

Details and patient eligibility

About

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

Full 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.

Enrollment

4 patients

Sex

All

Ages

18+ years old

Volunteers

No Healthy Volunteers

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