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Exploring the Nature, Assessment and Treatment of Stuttering

ConditionsStutteringStuttering, AdultStuttering, ChildhoodStuttering, Developmental
Trial statusRecruiting
Trial phaseNot applicable
Trial typeInterventional
Biological sexAll
Age2-85
SponsorUniversity of Texas at Austin

About this trial

The purposes of this study are to 1) investigate potential speech, language, and psychosocial contributions to the experience of stuttering in monolingual and multilingual speakers, and to 2) evaluate interdisciplinary, telehealth, and speech-language pathology treatment methods and clinical training specific to fluency disorders.

Eligibility criteria

This trial accepts healthy volunteers

Qualifiers

their parent/caregiver reports concern that their child is a person who stutters,

they exhibit three of more stuttering-like disfluencies (e.g., sound/syllable repetitions, (in)audible sound prolongations, whole-word repetitions) per 300-word speech sample, or

they present with an overall score of 11 or higher on the Stuttering Severity Instrument - 4th Edition (SSI-4).

they report they are a person who stutters,

Disqualifiers

None

Trial design

Design model

Single group

Treatments tested in this trial

  • The Blank Center CARE Model(TM) for Individuals who Stutter

    Behavioral

    The over-arching goal of the Blank Center CARE Model is to ensure individuals who stutter communicate effectively, advocate for themselves in a manner that maintains agency, and ensure their quality of life does not depend on producing, or attempting to control, stuttered speech.

Treatment groups

3,000 Participants
are divided into 1 treatment group
Group A: Blank Center CARE Model (Communication, Advocacy, Resilience, Education)Experimental treatment 1 intervention

Trial outcomes

Primary outcomes

1

Communication Competence

psychometric measures of communication competence (e.g., CARE Assessment: Communication Subscale)

Time frame
11-weeks
2

Advocacy

psychometric measures of self-advocacy (e.g., CARE Assessment: Advocacy Subscale)

Time frame
11-weeks
3

Resilience

psychometric measures of resilience (e.g., CARE Assessment: Resilience Subscale)

Time frame
11-weeks
4

Education

psychometric measures of education about stuttering (e.g., CARE Assessment: Education Subscale)

Time frame
11-weeks

Secondary outcomes

Other outcomes

Sponsors and contacts

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University of Texas at Austin

Lead sponsor

Source ClinicalTrials.gov
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