Treatment of cognition and functional communication on people with chronic aphasia Nervous System Diseases
Conditions
Interventions
Cantonese-speaking PWA will receive either conversation therapy (CT) and cognitive stimulation (CS) or conversation therapy alone. Participants will be assigned to one of the treatment conditions, i.e
2008, 2009, 2012), in which the activities will be designed in accordance with principles of CS. Activities that use linguistic materials will be replaced with non-linguistic stimuli, e.g., in a card
Sponsors
University of Hong Kong
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
All
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: 1. Native speakers of Cantonese 2. Chronic aphasia with onset more than 6 months 3. No reported progressive neurogenic etiologies (e.g. dementia, Parkinson’s Disease) 4. No motor speech disorders of moderate to a severe level 5. No reported hearing and visual impairments 6. Age 18 years or above
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria: Patients with other neurogenic disorders such as dementia, Parkinson's disease
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| 1. Ability in a conversation, measured using short stories depicted in comics and short videos which the participant must converse the meaning with a communication partner who is naïve to the content. 2. Cognitive performance: 2.1 Digit span forward and backward 2.2 Wisconsin Card Sorting Test 2.3 Test of Nonverbal Intelligence 2.4 Attention Network Test 2.5 Stroop Color-word Test Pre-treatment assessment will be carried out twice with all the language and cognitive tasks described above; three more assessments were conducted in the 8th, 12th, and 20th week, corresponding to the performance of PWA in the middle of the treatment block, immediate post-treatment and eight-week post-treatment, respectively. | — |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| The Cantonese version of the Main Concept Analysis (Kong, 2011) conducted at baseline and in the 8th, 12th, and 20th week. The participants' verbal descriptions based on four sets of picture-sequence were audio-recorded. The number of main concepts (i.e. number of statement that contained one verb with one or more pieces of essential information that are accurate in relation to the picture stimuli) produced by each participant was calculated and compared with normative data. | — |
Countries
China, Hong Kong
Outcome results
None listed