stuttering disorder. Adult onset fluency disorder
Conditions
Interventions
Intervention 1: Intervention group: Fifty study participants were randomly divided into one of the groups (intervention and control or tDCS and sham) as described in the previous sections. In the inte
Sponsors
Zahedan University of Medical Sciences
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
All
Age
8 Years to 12 Years
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: Children with stuttering aged 8-12 years Persian monolingual or mastering the Persian language according to the examiner's opinion Confirming the presence of at least 12% dysfluency for the stuttering group using the SSI-4 instrument (moderate impairment level)
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria: Previous history of receiving combined treatment of speech therapy and tDCS and speech therapy alone in one month before entering the study Presence of significant psychiatric symptoms such as mood and emotional disorders, sleep disorder, depression, etc. according to the family report Presence of disorder in the person's state of consciousness according to the therapist's diagnosis Presence of other speech and language disorders History of acute medical problems according to the medical records of the references and the family report History of any previous neurological disorder, including seizures and taking psychiatric drugs according to the family
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Percentage of Dysfluent syllables. Timepoint: The baseline session, immediately before and after the intervention, in all intervention sessions (5 sessions), at the end of the first and sixth weeks after the intervention. Method of measurement: For this purpose, sample reading and conversation of the cases at each of the results evaluation points (baseline session, immediately before and after the intervention, in all the intervention sessions (5 sessions) before and after the therapy assignments and at the end of the first and sixth weeks after the intervention) is recorded. The first 2 minutes of each of the recorded samples are used to check the percentage of non-syllabic syllables (DS). (In these 2 minutes, the reference must have produced at least 200 floods). Also, the topic of conversations and reading text will be new in all assessment and treatment sessions, and no repeated samples will be recorded (standard Persian language texts will be used, including the Rainbow text). | — |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| The overall score of the Stuttering Severity Instrument-4 (SSI-4) questionnaire. Timepoint: Before the intervention (baseline session), after the last intervention session. Method of measurement: After checking the percentage of dyslexic syllables and recording a speech sample of at least 5 minutes, reading assignments and continuous speech samples will be used to evaluate the severity of stuttering and to calculate the SSI-4 score. In this questionnaire, the severity of stuttering is measured based on the scores of three subscales. These subscales include: frequency (the number of times stuttering occurs), latency (time from the beginning to the end of speech) and associated physical behaviors (behaviors that a person with stuttering commits during speech such as patting the ground, lowering the head, moving giving head and...) The total score is calculated from 0 to 56, which is obtained from the sum of the scores of frequency, latency and associated physical behaviors. The higher the score, the more severe the stuttering.;Communication attitude test score. Timepoint: Before the intervention (baseline session), after the last intervention session. Method of measurement: After checking the severity of stuttering, the communication attitude test will be used to check the attitude of the study participants towards stuttering disorder. This test has 35 sentences that measure a person's attitude towards his speech and can be answered correctly or incorrectly. Some questions show a positive attitude, for which a correct answer gets a score of one and a wrong answer gets a score of zero. Some questions show a negative attitude, for which a correct answer gets a score of zero and a wrong answer gets a score of one. The set of scores of this questionnaire is 35, a score of less than 11 indicates a completely negative attitude, a score of 11 to 19 indicates a negative attitude, a score of 20 to 24 indicates an average attitude, a score of 25 to 31 indicates a positive attit | — |
Countries
Iran (Islamic Republic of)
Contacts
Public ContactNasrin Shahouzaei
Zahedan University of Medical Sciences
Outcome results
None listed