Randomized clinical trial - the use of SpeechEasy in stuttering treatment

• Grant number: 11/10000-2
• Support Opportunities: Regular Research Grants
• Start date: September 01, 2011
• End date: August 31, 2013
• Field of knowledge: Health Sciences - Speech Therapy
• Principal Investigator: Cláudia Regina Furquim de Andrade
• Grantee: Cláudia Regina Furquim de Andrade
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Medicina (FM). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil

Abstract

Stuttering is characterized by involuntary speech disruptions. The purpose of the research is to develop a randomized treatment clinical trial in order to verify the efficacy of SpeechEasy. The study will be characterized as Phase III, aiming to monitor possible adverse effects and to perform a between-treatment comparsion: SpeechEasy (GI) versus Traditional behavioral treatment (GII). Participants of the study will be adults, of both genders, in a population sample of at least 15 participants in each group. Alterations in the physiological manifestations - reduction in the speech disruption index - will be understood as a positive treatment effect. These alterations will be measured by behavioral speech tests, electrophysiological and self-assessment tests. The study analysis will have as a theoretical base the DIVA model. The study hypothesis is that there will be no difference between the two treatments. The normality of data distribution will be tested through the Komolgorov-Smirnov test. Appropriate statistical tests will be applied according to sample data distribution. The clinical trial aims to qualify the best treatment proposals, those that are safer and more effective, i.e. to determine scientific evidence that effectively promote clinical change. The basic concept is the well being of clients and the safety involved in the offered procedure. (AU)

Scientific publications

(References retrieved automatically from Web of Science and SciELO through information on FAPESP grants and their corresponding numbers as mentioned in the publications by the authors)

RITTO, ANA PAULA; COSTA, JULIA BIANCALANA; JUSTE, FABIOLA STAROBOLE; FURQUIM DE ANDRADE, CLAUDIA REGINA. Comparison of different speech tasks among adults who stutter and adults who do not stutter. Clinics, v. 71, n. 3, p. 152-155, 2016. (14/05265-5, 11/10000-2)

RITTO, ANA PAULA; JUSTE, FABIOLA STAROBOLE; STUART, ANDREW; KALINOWSKI, JOSEPH; FURQUIM DE ANDRADE, CLAUDIA REGINA. Randomized clinical trial: the use of SpeechEasy (R) in stuttering treatment. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF LANGUAGE & COMMUNICATION DISORDERS, v. 51, n. 6, p. 769-774, DEC 2016. (14/05265-5, 11/10000-2)