Clinical Trial: Stuttering and Apraxia of Speech: the Efficacy of an Intervention Program

Study Status: Completed
Recruit Status: Completed
Study Type: Interventional

Official Title: The Speech Prosody of People With Stuttering and Developmental Apraxia: the Efficacy of an Intervention Program

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

Detailed Summary: 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.
Sponsor: Federal University of Minas Gerais

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Information By: Federal University of Minas Gerais

Dates:
Date Received: March 31, 2010
Date Started: April 2007
Date Completion:
Last Updated: April 1, 2010
Last Verified: April 2007