Telerehabilitation for Aphasia (TERRA)

Description

Speech-language therapy is generally found to be helpful in the rehabilitation of aphasia. However, not all patients with aphasia have access to adequate treatment to maximize their recovery. The goal of this project is to compare the efficacy of telerehabilitation or Aphasia Remote Therapy (ART) to the more traditional In-Clinic Therapy (I-CT).

Conditions

Aphasia, Stroke, Stroke Rehabilitation

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Study overview

Speech-language therapy is generally found to be helpful in the rehabilitation of aphasia. However, not all patients with aphasia have access to adequate treatment to maximize their recovery. The goal of this project is to compare the efficacy of telerehabilitation or Aphasia Remote Therapy (ART) to the more traditional In-Clinic Therapy (I-CT).

Center for the Study of Aphasia Recovery (C-STAR): Telerehabilitation for Aphasia (TERRA)

Telerehabilitation for Aphasia (TERRA)

Condition
Aphasia
Intervention / Treatment

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Contacts and Locations

Columbia

University of South Carolina Aphasia Lab, Columbia, South Carolina, United States, 29201

Participation Criteria

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Eligibility Criteria

  • 1. Participants must have sustained a left hemisphere ischemic or hemorrhagic stroke at least 12 months prior to enrollment.
  • 2. Participants must primarily speak English for at least the past 20 years.
  • 3. Participants must be capable of giving informed consent or indicating another to provide informed consent.
  • 4. Participants must be between 21-80 years of age.
  • 5. Participants must be magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) compatible (e.g., no metal implants, not claustrophobic) on a 3-Tesla (3T) scanner.
  • 1. Participants must not have previous neurological disease affecting the brain (e.g. history of traumatic brain injury).
  • 2. Participants must not have severely limited speech production (severe unintelligibility) and/or auditory comprehension that interferes with adequate participation in the therapy provided (i.e., WAB-R Spontaneous Speech rating scale score of 0-1 or WAB-R Comprehension score of 0-1).
  • 3. Participants must not have a history of stroke to the right hemisphere of the brain.
  • 4. Participants must not have a bilateral, cerebellar or brainstem stroke.
  • 5. Participants must not have anything that makes them be 3T MRI incompatible
  • 6. Insufficient intelligible speech to provide accurate responses with discourse/naming.

Ages Eligible for Study

21 Years to 80 Years

Sexes Eligible for Study

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Collaborators and Investigators

University of South Carolina,

Julius Fridriksson, Ph.D., PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR, University of South Carolina

Study Record Dates

2026-03-31