Effects of Gesture Plus Verbal Treatment (GVT) in Cantonese Speakers With Aphasia
Recruiting
N/A
Interventional Study
Aphasia
Gestures
No Placebo Group
Every participant receives an active treatment — no one gets a placebo.
At a Glance
- Age
- 18 and older
- Sex
- Any
- Study type
- Interventional
- Purpose
- Treatment
- Participants needed
- 90 (estimated)
- Sponsor
- Hong Kong University · Other
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About This Trial
This research aims to explore the relative efficacy of Verbal-only and GVT on naming difficulty in Cantonese-speaking people with aphasia (PWA).
The primary research question in this study is: "For Cantonese-speaking people with aphasia, what are the relative effects of verbal treatment compared to gesture plus verbal treatment (GVT) on verbal and gesture naming at different levels?"
People with…
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Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion Criteria:
* Diagnosed with aphasia
* Demonstrate Word finding Difficulty (WFD)
* Able to repeat single words
* Normal (or corrected) vision and hearing
* Aphasia resulting from a unilateral left hemisphere stroke
* Premorbidly fluent in spoken Cantonese
* Without significant cognitive imp…
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