RECRUITING

Effects of Aphasia Identification Cards on Service Workers' Comprehension of People With Aphasia

Study Overview

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Description

The goal of this clinical trial is to learn whether healthy volunteers are more successful at understanding people with aphasia if they have first viewed an aphasia identification (ID) card. The main questions this study aims to answer are: * Does viewing an aphasia ID card improve healthy volunteers' understanding of the language errors made by people with aphasia? * Does viewing an aphasia ID card improve healthy volunteers' understanding of people with aphasia who make long pauses in their speech? Researchers will compare aphasia ID cards to a control condition (no ID card) to see whether aphasia ID cards improve healthy volunteers' understanding. Healthy volunteers will visit the study site for a single session (about 2 hours long). During the session they will: * Complete brief tests of their vision, hearing and thinking * Listen to sentences produced by a speaker with aphasia while their eye movements are recorded * Complete a survey about the experience of listening to the speaker with aphasia

Official Title

Effects of Aphasia Identification Cards on Comprehension of Aphasic Language by Unfamiliar Communication Partners

Quick Facts

Study Start:2025-07
Study Completion:2026-08
Study Type:Not specified
Phase:Not Applicable
Enrollment:Not specified
Status:RECRUITING

Study ID

NCT06990997

Participation Criteria

Researchers look for people who fit a certain description, called eligibility criteria. Some examples of these criteria are a person's general health condition or prior treatments.

Ages Eligible for Study:18 Years to 59 Years
Sexes Eligible for Study:ALL
Accepts Healthy Volunteers:Yes
Standard Ages:ADULT
Inclusion CriteriaExclusion Criteria
  1. * Adult age 18-59
  2. * Currently employed as a service worker
  3. * Understand spoken and written English well
  4. * High school diploma or equivalency
  5. * Normal vision or corrected vision with glasses or contact lenses
  1. * Language disorder
  2. * Hearing impairment
  3. * Intellectual disability
  4. * History of acquired neurological disorder (e.g., stroke or moderate/severe brain injury)

Contacts and Locations

Study Contact

Jennifer E Mack, PhD
CONTACT
4135458468
jemack@umass.edu
Holly Laws, PhD
CONTACT
hlaws@umass.edu

Principal Investigator

Jennifer Mack, PhD
PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Study Locations (Sites)

UMass Amherst Henry M. Thomas III Center at Springfield
Springfield, Massachusetts, 01115
United States

Collaborators and Investigators

Sponsor: University of Massachusetts, Amherst

  • Jennifer Mack, PhD, PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Study Record Dates

These dates track the progress of study record and summary results submissions to ClinicalTrials.gov. Study records and reported results are reviewed by the National Library of Medicine (NLM) to make sure they meet specific quality control standards before being posted on the public website.

Study Registration Dates

Study Start Date2025-07
Study Completion Date2026-08

Study Record Updates

Study Start Date2025-07
Study Completion Date2026-08

Terms related to this study

Keywords Provided by Researchers

  • Aphasia
  • Communication partner
  • Service worker
  • Language processing
  • Language comprehension
  • aphasia identification card
  • eye-tracking

Additional Relevant MeSH Terms

  • Aphasia