60
Participants
Start Date
August 4, 2025
Primary Completion Date
September 30, 2029
Study Completion Date
November 30, 2029
tDCS (active)
The investigators will administer active tDCS to left dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC) during 10 sessions of behavioral treatment. For active tDCS, the current will slowly be increased to 2mA and applied for 20 minutes.
Attention-focused sentence comprehension treatment
This is a specific type of speech-language therapy that focuses on simultaneously improving auditory comprehension and behavioral attention. Participants will receive 10 sessions of this treatment.
Sentence comprehension treatment
This is a specific type of speech-language therapy that focuses on improving auditory comprehension . Participants will receive 10 sessions of this treatment.
tDCS (sham)
The investigators will administer sham tDCS to left dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC) during 10 sessions of behavioral treatment. For sham tDCS, the current will slowly be increased to 2mA over the course of 30 seconds and then immediately ramped back down to zero.
RECRUITING
Syracuse University, Syracuse
NOT_YET_RECRUITING
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD)
NIH
Syracuse University
OTHER