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Listener Training for Improved Intelligibility of People With Parkinson's Disease

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Sponsor: Utah State University

Conditions: Dysarthria, Hypokinetic

Interventions: Listener Training

Countries: United States

Listener training offers a promising avenue for improving communication for people with dysarthria due to Parkinson's disease by offsetting the intelligibility burden from the patient onto their primary communication partners. Here, we employ a repeated-measures, randomized controlled trial to establish the efficacy of listener training for patients with PD and their primary communication partners. This translational work will establish a new realm of clinical practice in which the intelligibility impairments in PD are addressed by training partners to better understand dysarthric speech, thus elevating communication outcomes and participation in daily life.

Eligibility overview

Sex: ALL

Age: 18 Years to —

Healthy volunteers: No

Study type: INTERVENTIONAL

Eligibility criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

* Primary language is English
* 18 years or older
* medical diagnosis of Parkinson's disease (patient participants)
* speech diagnosis of hyperkinetic dysarthria, exhibiting hallmark characteristics (patient participants)

Exclusion Criteria:

* Severe cognitive impairment
* Less than 18 years of age
* Primary language other than English

Locations (2)

Tallahassee, Florida, United States
Logan, Utah, United States