Balancing Effortful and Errorless Learning in Naming Treatment for Aphasia

Aphasia is a language disorder caused by stroke and other acquired brain injuries that affects over two million people in the United States and which interferes with life participation and quality of life. Anomia (i.e., word- finding difficulty) is a primary frustration for people with aphasia. Picture-based naming treatments for anomia are widely used in aphasia rehabilitation, but current treatment approaches do not address the long-term retention of naming abilities and do not focus on using these naming abilities in daily life. The current research aims to evaluate novel anomia treatment approaches to improve long-term retention and generalization to everyday life. This study is one of two that are part of a larger grant. This record is for sub-study 1, which will adaptively balance effort and accuracy using speeded naming deadlines.

NCT Number	NCT05653440
Lead Sponsor	University of Pittsburgh Collaborators: University of Massachusetts, Amherst, National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD)
Conditions	Aphasia, Stroke
Enrollment	30 participants
Start Date	2023-11-27
Primary Completion	2027-01-31 (estimated)
Study Completion	2028-01-31 (estimated)
Updated on ClinicalTrials.gov	2026-04-13