Perceptual Training to Improve Listeners' Ability to Understand Speech Produced by Individuals With Dysarthria

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Conditions studied: Dysarthria, Intelligibility, Speech

In brief

There exist very few effective treatments that ease the intelligibility burden of dysarthria. Perceptual training offers a promising avenue for improving intelligibility of dysarthric speech by offsetting the communicative burden from the speaker with dysarthria on to their primary communication partners-family, friends, and caregivers. This project, utilizing advanced explanatory models, will permit identification of speaker and listener parameters, and their interactions, that allow perceptual training paradigms to be optimized for intelligibility outcomes in dysarthria rehabilitation. This work addresses this critical gap in clinical practice and sets the stage for extension of dysarthria management to listener-targeted remediation-advancing clinical practice and enhanced communication and quality of life outcomes for this population.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT04897711

Run by

Utah State University

People needed

217

Starts

2021-04-26

Expected to finish

2023-07-01

Last updated by the study team

2024-09-19

Who can join

Age: 18 and older, up to 80. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Native speakers of American English

You may not qualify if…

• No self-reported history of speech impairment
• No self-reported history of language impairment
• No self-reported history of cognitive impairment

Where it is running

• Florida State University — Tallahassee, Florida, United States
• Utah State University — Logan, Utah, United States

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