Clinical trials: Stuttering
Stuttering, Adult, Stuttering, Childhood
Transcranial Alternating Current Stimulation (tACS) in Stuttering
The purpose of this study is to investigate how mild, noninvasive electrical brain stimulation affects speech relevant brain areas, which may in turn affect speech fluency and speaking-related brain activity in people that…
- Conditions
- Stuttering, Adult, Stuttering, Childhood, Stuttering, Developmental
- Trial name
- NCT06740968
- Testing
- transcranial alternating current stimulation (tACS)
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 80 people
- Sponsor
- University of Michigan
Stuttering, Childhood, Stuttering
Network Connectivity and Temporal Processing in Adolescents Who Stutter
The specific purpose of this clinical trial is to compare performance on rhythm perception and production tasks between children who stutter and children who do not stutter.
- Trial name
- NCT05286151
- Testing
- Rhythm discrimination
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 500 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Michigan
Stuttering, Childhood, Executive Dysfunction
Executive Function Performance in Children Who Stutter
The study aims to asses the executive function in children who stutter for better management of those children
- Trial name
- NCT05640440
- Testing
- Executive function testing
- Where
- Egypt
- Volunteers
- 45 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Sohag University
Stuttering, Developmental
Investigating Non-invasive Brain Stimulation to Enhance Fluency in People Who Stutter
This study aims to test whether the application of transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) concurrent with fluency training results in improvements in speech fluency in adults with developmental stuttering, measured up to…
- Trial name
- INSTEP (NCT03335722)
- Testing
- Metronome-timed speech, Active tDCS
- Where
- United Kingdom
- Volunteers
- 43 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Oxford
Stuttering/ Developmental
The Effect of the Non-invasive Brain Stimulation on the Speech Fluency Enhancement
The aim of this study is to determine the effectiveness of concurrent transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) and fluency training in adults with developmental stuttering.
- Trial name
- NCT03990168
- Testing
- Anodal tDCS, fluency intervention/ Delayed Auditory Feedback
- Where
- Iran
- Volunteers
- 50 people
- Sponsor
- Iran University of Medical Sciences
Speech and Language Disorder, Speech Therapy
Providing Speech Therapy Awareness in Private Schools
There has been limited research in the area of speech and language therapy awareness in Pakistan. The study aims to assess the efficacy of providing speech therapy awareness in private schools through a pre-post model.
- Conditions
- Speech and Language Disorder, Speech Therapy, Speech Delay, Swallowing Disorder
- Trial name
- NCT04505696
- Testing
- Speech-Language Pathology Presentation
- Where
- Pakistan
- Volunteers
- 138 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Riphah International University
Developmental Articulation Disorder, Stuttering
Study of Brain Activity During Speech Production and Speech Perception
The purpose of this study is to gain a better understanding of the brain's activity and organization in the development of speech disorders.
- Trial name
- NCT00004991
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 411 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS)
Stuttering, Stuttering, Childhood
The Development of Stuttering in Young Children
The goal of this longitudinal research is to learn why some children "grow out" of stuttering, while others persist. Children who do and do not stutter aged 3-6 years are eligible to participate in our study.
- Conditions
- Stuttering, Stuttering, Childhood, Stuttering, Developmental
- Trial name
- NCT06578416
- Testing
- Standardized assessments of speech and language abilities
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 120 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Michigan State University
Stammering
Pilot: Group Therapy for Children Who Stammer
The aim of the study is to answer the question: Is a large-scale research study of the effectiveness of group speech and language therapy (SALT) for young people who stammer possible? The study will look at the issues involved in…
- Trial name
- NCT00945113
- Testing
- One-week speech therapy group
- Where
- United Kingdom
- Volunteers
- 6 people
- Sponsor
- Newcastle-upon-Tyne Hospitals NHS Trust
Developmental Articulation Disorder, Speech Disorder
Characteristics of Idiopathic Familial Speech Disorders
According to studies, speech disorders with unknown causes (idiopathic) affect approximately 5% of the population at some point in their life.
- Conditions
- Developmental Articulation Disorder, Speech Disorder, Stuttering
- Trial name
- NCT00001551
- Where
- 2 sites in United States
- Volunteers
- 375 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS)
Stuttering
Genetic Factors Related to Stuttering
Stuttering is an abnormality in speech that affects the rhythm of speech. People who stutter know what they wish to say, but at the time are unable to say it because of involuntary repetition, unnecessary lengthening…
- Trial name
- NCT00001602
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 500 people
- Sponsor
- National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD)
Stuttering, Adult, Stammering
High-definition tDCS Treatment for Cantonese-speaking Adults Who Stutter
The proposed study aims to investigate the effect of combined transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) and behavioural speech training in improving speech fluency in Cantonese-speaking adults who stutter (AWS), and to…
- Trial name
- NCT05574803
- Testing
- Active-tDCS
- Where
- Hong Kong
- Volunteers
- 10 people
- Sponsor
- The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Stuttering
Development and Pilot Testing of Virtually Simulated Intervention for Patients Having Stuttering
This study aims to develop and pilot test a culturally appropriate virtual reality (VR)-based speech restructuring intervention for individuals with stuttering in Pakistan.
- Trial name
- NCT07833969
- Testing
- Virtually Simulated Intervention
- Where
- Pakistan
- Volunteers
- 10 people
- Sponsor
- Riphah International University
Stuttering, Adult
Information Processing Biases in Adults Who Stutter
The goal of this clinical trial is to examine whether stuttering is associated with a tendency to attend more quickly or for longer durations to threat-related information in the environment (threat-related attention bias).
- Trial name
- NCT06422442
- Testing
- Threat-related stimulus exposure
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 80 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Memphis
Childhood-Onset Fluency Disorder (Stuttering)
Effects of Ecopipam or Placebo in Adults With Stuttering (Speak Freely)
This is a multicenter, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled, parallel-group, Phase 2 exploratory study in adult subjects with childhood onset fluency disorder.
- Trial name
- NCT04492956
- Testing
- Ecopipam
- Where
- 9 sites in United States
- Volunteers
- 68 people
- Sponsor
- Emalex Biosciences Inc.
Stuttering, Adult
Investigating the SMA's Role in Speech and Reading Fluency in PWS With rTMS
The goal of this clinical trial is to study how a part of the brain called the supplementary motor area (SMA) is connected to speech and reading fluency in adults who stutter.
- Trial name
- NCT06809387
- Testing
- Brain stimulation
- Where
- Turkey (Türkiye)
- Volunteers
- 15 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Medipol University
Parkinson's Disease (PD), Essential Tremor
Investigating Subcortical Contributions to Speech Sequencing in Deep Brain Stimulator Recipients
This study will examine how two important brain circuits - one involving the subthalamic nucleus (STN) and one involving the ventral intermediate nucleus of the thalamus (VIM) - contribute to learning and producing speech…
- Trial name
- NCT07455760
- Testing
- Phoneme sequence learning, Cessation and re-enabling of stimulation of the STN, Cessation and re-enabling of stimulation of the VIM thalamic nucleus
- Where
- 2 sites in United States
- Volunteers
- 80 people
- Sponsor
- Boston University Charles River Campus
Stuttering, Childhood, Anxiety Disorders
Stuttering and Anxiety
Stuttering was defined as a common neurodevelopmental speech disorder characterized by repetitions, prolongations, and interruptions in the flow of speech.
- Trial name
- NCT03160586
- Testing
- Stuttering severity instrument-3, Child Behavior Checklist for age 4-18
- Where
- Egypt
- Volunteers
- 100 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Assiut University
Stuttering, Developmental, Dyslexia
Investigating Individual Differences in Speech Motor Skills in Neurotypical Speakers and Persons With Disordered Speech
This study aims to understand how people use different types of feedback to control their speech. When an individual speaks, the brain relies on several systems at the same time, such as sensory systems that monitor an…
- Conditions
- Stuttering, Developmental, Dyslexia, Healthy Participants
- Trial name
- NCT07459803
- Testing
- Unpredictable auditory feedback perturbation: 2 behavioral sessions, Unpredictable auditory feedback perturbation during tCS: 3 behavioral sessions, Sustained F1 auditory feedback perturbation
- Where
- 2 sites in United States
- Volunteers
- 90 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Boston University Charles River Campus
Stuttering, Developmental
Non-invasive Brain Stimulation in Adults Who Stutter
Research studies in stuttering have shown that activity patterns in certain brain areas differ in people who stutter compared to people who do not stutter when speaking.
- Trial name
- NCT03437512
- Testing
- Anodal tDCS, Fluency training
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 29 people
- Sponsor
- University of Michigan