RecruitingNot ApplicableNCT06815263

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


Sponsor

Utah State University

Enrollment

360 participants

Start Date

Apr 7, 2025

Study Type

INTERVENTIONAL

Conditions

Summary

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

Min Age: 18 Years

Plain Language Summary

Simplified for easier understanding

This study is training listeners — including caregivers, family members, and the general public — to better understand the speech of people with Parkinson's disease. Parkinson's often affects the voice and speech, making it harder for others to understand. Researchers want to see if listener training programs can meaningfully improve communication for people living with the condition. **You may be eligible if...** - You are 18 or older - English is your primary language - You have a medical diagnosis of Parkinson's disease and a speech diagnosis of motor speech difficulty (for patient participants) - Listener participants (caregivers, volunteers) are also welcome if they are 18+ and English-speaking **You may NOT be eligible if...** - You have severe cognitive impairment - You are under 18 - English is not your primary language Talk to your doctor to see if this trial is right for you.

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Interventions

BEHAVIORALListener Training

Partner participants are presented with individual audio phrases that make up passage reading speech stimuli and orthographic transcriptions of what the patient is saying. Partners are asked to listen carefully to the audio files and use the written subtitles to help them understand what is being said.


Locations(2)

Florida State University

Tallahassee, Florida, United States

Utah State University

Logan, Utah, United States

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