Speech and Arm Combined Exergame for Cerebral Palsy
This study is testing computer-based therapy games designed to improve speech clarity and hand/arm movement in children with cerebral palsy (CP). There are three groups: one uses games for speech only, another for hand/arm movement only, and a third uses games that combine both. The games are played at home for 8 weeks. Researchers will measure changes in speech clarity and hand/arm movement, and look at brain activation. We are looking for 15 children, aged 8-17, who have CP, mild to moderate speech difficulties but use speech to communicate, and mild to moderate arm movement issues.
- Study design
- This interventional study plans to enroll 15 participants. It is testing three different behavioral interventions: Speech only, Hand/Arm only, and Speech and arm combined.
- What's involved
- Participants will use computer-based therapy games at home for 8 weeks. Speech loudness, mouth opening, and hand/arm movements will be recorded during game play.
- Compensation
- Not stated in the trial record.
- Follow-up
- Participants will be assessed at pre-treatment, mid-treatment (4 weeks), post-treatment (8 weeks), and for a 6-week retention period after treatment ends.
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Speech and Arm Combined Exergame
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Conditions
Where it's being run
1 sites across 1 statesStudy leadership
- Young Hwa M Chang, PhD, CCC-SLP · PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR · Rutgers University
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What this trial measures
- Intelligibility measuresPre-treatment (1-2 weeks before treatment), mid-treatment (4 weeks after treatment begins), post-treatment (immediately after treatment ends at 8 weeks), 6-week retention (6 weeks after treatment ends)
To assess the word and sentence intelligibility changes in the participating children with CP. Once the child participants' data are collected, adult listeners will come to the Rutgers SLP Clinic to assess speech changes in these children. Each listener will spend approximately 30 minutes to one hour listening to the children's speech (words and sentences) and type on a laptop what they heard. They will also indicate how easy or difficult the utterance was to understand using a visual analog scale on the laptop. The anchor points provided on the scale will be: difficult to understand (score = 0) to easy to understand (score = 100). Each listener will provide their rating by sliding a pointer on this scale between the two anchor points. The words and sentences that the listeners listen to are audio recordings collected during the child participants' four assessment sessions (pre-treatment, mid-treatment, post-treatment, and retention).
- Melbourne Assessment 2Pre-treatment (1-2 weeks before treatment), mid-treatment (4 weeks after treatment begins), post-treatment (immediately after treatment ends at 8 weeks), 6-week retention (6 weeks after treatment ends)
MA2 is a 14 item criterion-referenced test for evaluating four elements of upper limb movement quality in children with a neurological impairment