Improving Electronic Written Communication in Aphasia

Completed · Not applicable

Conditions studied: Aphasia

In brief

People with aphasia have difficulty with writing and often struggle to use electronic communication that connects people to one another. The goal of this project is to evaluate the extent to which a novel treatment (T-WRITE) improves written language function and the use of text messaging; we also evaluate whether there are subsequent positive effects on the participant's social connectedness and ultimately health-related quality of life (HRQOL). T-WRITE involves choral reading and repeated writing of sentences via texting. Participants work intensively and independently at home on a laptop computer. A virtual therapist directs the participant to practice copying and independently writing phrases and short sentences using the typing feature on a cellular phone. The specific objective of this randomized clinical trial is to compare T-WRITE to ORLA+WTG, a similar treatment that targets written expression using handwriting.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT03773419

Run by

Shirley Ryan AbilityLab

People needed

63

Starts

2018-09-20

Expected to finish

2022-09-30

Last updated by the study team

2022-10-26

Who can join

Age: 18 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• diagnosis of an aphasia subsequent to a left-hemisphere infarct(s) that is confirmed by CT scan or MRI
• Aphasia Quotient score on the Western Aphasia Battery-Revised of 40-85.
• > 6 months post injury
• premorbidly right handed, determined by Edinburgh Handedness Inventory
• completed at least an eighth grade education
• premorbid proficiency in English by self-report

You may not qualify if…

• any other neurological condition (other than cerebral vascular disease) that could potentially affect cognition or speech, such as Parkinson's Disease, Alzheimer's Dementia, traumatic brain injury.
• active substance abuse.

Where it is running

• Shirley Ryan AbilityLab — Chicago, Illinois, United States
• James Madison University — Harrisonburg, Virginia, United States

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