Actively Recruiting
Telerehabilitation for Aphasia (TERRA)
Led by University of South Carolina · Updated on 2026-04-02
100
Participants Needed
1
Research Sites
303 weeks
Total Duration
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Sponsors
U
University of South Carolina
Lead Sponsor
N
National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD)
Collaborating Sponsor
AI-Summary
What this Trial Is About
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
Official Title
Telerehabilitation for Aphasia (TERRA)
Who Can Participate
Eligibility Criteria
You may qualify if you...
- Participants must have sustained a left hemisphere ischemic or hemorrhagic stroke at least 12 months prior to enrollment.
- Participants must primarily speak English for at least the past 20 years.
- Participants must be capable of giving informed consent or indicating another to provide informed consent.
- Participants must be between 21-80 years of age.
- Participants must be magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) compatible (e.g., no metal implants, not claustrophobic) on a 3-Tesla (3T) scanner.
You will not qualify if you...
- Participants must not have previous neurological disease affecting the brain (e.g. history of traumatic brain injury).
- 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).
- Participants must not have a history of stroke to the right hemisphere of the brain.
- Participants must not have a bilateral, cerebellar or brainstem stroke.
- Participants must not have anything that makes them be 3T MRI incompatible.
- Insufficient intelligible speech to provide accurate responses with discourse/naming.
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Trial Site Locations
Total: 1 location
1
University of South Carolina Aphasia Lab
Columbia, South Carolina, United States, 29201
Actively Recruiting
Research Team
S
Sara Sayers, M.S.
CONTACT
K
Kelli Powell, B.S.
CONTACT
How is the study designed?
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Masking
SINGLE
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Model
PARALLEL
Primary Purpose
TREATMENT
Number of Arms
2
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