Stuttering
Conditions
Interventions
Five weekly training sessions of two hours for adults and five daily sessions of two hours for the students of junior high and high schools.
Sponsors
National Rehabilitation Center for Persons with Disabilities
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
All
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: Persons who stutter older than 11 years old (junior high school students and above). Those who volunteer for participating in this group training program among stuttering patients of our hospital and those who apply to the program through public recruitment.
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria: Persons who can not speak at all because of severe stuttering. Persons with severe depression, or mental retardation. Persons who will not follow instructions. Persons who do not want improvement of stuttering.
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| "The Stuttering Test" before the intervention, at the end of the intervention, and one month after the end of the intervention. | — |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Questionnaires filled before the intervention, at the end of the intervention, and one month after the end of the intervention (Overall Assessment of the Speaker's Experience of Stuttering (OASES), Japanese edition, Liebowitz Social Anxiety Scale in Japanese (LSAS-J), Stuttering Distress Questionnaire, Erickson Scale of Communication Attitudes, modified (S-24), Self-Assessment Scale of Speech, Preparatory behavior checklist for those who tend to stutter just before speech, Thought Chain Chart for those who stutter, UTBAS-6, General Self-Efficasy Scale(GSES), PHQ9) | — |
Countries
Japan
Contacts
Public ContactTomohito Houjou
National Rehabilitation Center for Persons with Disabilities Hospital
Outcome results
None listed