Recruiting

Listener Training

Sponsor:

Utah State University

Code:

NCT06815263

Conditions

Dysarthria, Hypokinetic

Eligibility Criteria

Sex: All

Age: 18+

Healthy Volunteers: Not accepted

Interventions

Listener Training

Study Details

Brief summary:

Listener training offers a promising avenue for improving communication for people with dysarthria due to Parkinson's disease by offsetting the intelligibility burden from the patient onto their primary communication partners. Here, we employ a repeated-measures, randomized controlled trial to establish the efficacy of listener training for patients with PD and their primary communication partners. This translational work will establish a new realm of clinical practice in which the intelligibility impairments in PD are addressed by training partners to better understand dysarthric speech, thus elevating communication outcomes and participation in daily life.

Conditions

Dysarthria, Hypokinetic

Study ID

NCT06815263

Start date

Apr 7, 2025

Status verified date

Apr, 2026

Completion date

May 1, 2029

Anticipated

Primary completion date

Jan 1, 2029

Anticipated

Eligibility Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

Sex: All

Age: 18+

Healthy Volunteers: Not accepted

Inclusion Criteria:

  • Primary language is English
  • 18 years or older
  • medical diagnosis of Parkinson's disease (patient participants)
  • speech diagnosis of hyperkinetic dysarthria, exhibiting hallmark characteristics (patient participants)

Exclusion Criteria:

  • Severe cognitive impairment
  • Less than 18 years of age
  • Primary language other than English

Study Design

Enrollment

360 participants

Anticipated

Allocation

Randomized

Intervention Model

Parallel Assignment

Primary purpose

Treatment

Interventions and Outcome Measures

Arms

experimental: Experimental Condition

Listener receives speech of patient with dysarthria

sham comparator: Control condition

Listener receives speech of speaker with no speech disorder

Interventions

Listener Training

Partner participants are presented with individual audio phrases that make up passage reading speech stimuli and orthographic transcriptions of what the patient is saying. Partners are asked to listen carefully to the audio files and use the written subtitles to help them understand what is being said.

Primary outcome measure

  • Speech intelligibility [ Time Frame: pretest, during training, immediate posttest, one week posttest, one month posttest ]

Central Contacts and Locations

Central contacts

Morgan Robertson, PhD

435-797-1388morgan.robertson@usu.edu

Stephanie Borrie, PhD

435-797-1388stephanie.borrie@usu.edu

Locations

Florida State University

Recruiting

Tallahassee, Florida, United States, 32306

Contacts

Kaitlin Lansford, PhD

850-644-8443klansford@fsu.edu

Principal Investigator:

Kaitlin Lansford, PhD

Utah State University

Recruiting

Logan, Utah, United States, 43221

Contacts

Stephanie Borrie, PhD

435-797-1388stephanie.borrie@usu.edu

Principal Investigator:

Stephanie Borrie, PhD

More Information

Sponsor

Utah State University

Last update posted

Apr 23, 2026

Last verified

Apr, 2026

Keywords

  • Dysarthria
  • Parkinson's disease
  • Speech
  • Listener

Trial information was received from ClinicalTrials.gov and was last updated on 2026-09-09. This information was provided to ClinicalTrials.gov by Utah State University on 2026-04-23.