Examining Interactions Between PALS and Caregivers

NARecruitingINTERVENTIONAL
Enrollment

152

Participants

Timeline

Start Date

January 22, 2025

Primary Completion Date

February 28, 2029

Study Completion Date

February 28, 2029

Conditions
Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS)
Interventions
BEHAVIORAL

Structured Communicative Interaction

"Two interlocutors, one with ALS and their caregiver will work together. Each participant in the pair will view the same set of words on their screens. After one second, one of the words will be highlighted on the speaker's screen, they will say the word in the phrase Click on the \_\_\_\_ this time, and the listener will click on it. After the listener has made their selection, both participants will receive feedback on trial success."

BEHAVIORAL

Unstructured communicative interaction

"Two interlocutors, one with ALS and their caregiver will work together. The pairs will be presented with two different versions of the same picture with eight differences chosen to elicit the same target segments (e.g., hid, ship, net). These pictures will be modified from the LUCID corpus. In total, pairs will complete four picture sets per session. Pairs will be given 5 minutes for each picture set."

Trial Locations (1)

16802

RECRUITING

Speech Core, Pennsylvania State University, University Park

All Listed Sponsors
collaborator

National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD)

NIH

lead

Penn State University

OTHER