Cognitive Reserve and Response to Speech-Language Intervention in Bilingual Speakers With Primary Progressive Aphasia
Primary Progressive Aphasia, Dementia, Dementia, Frontotemporal
About this trial
This is an interventional treatment trial for Primary Progressive Aphasia focused on measuring Dementia, ADRD, Bilingualism, Multilingualism, Primary Progressive Aphasia, Bilingual Primary Progressive Aphasia, Cognitive Reserve, Language Decline, Bilingual Language Decline, Speech-Language Therapy, Bilingual Speech-Language Therapy, Spanish speakers, Spanish-Catalan Bilinguals, Spanish-English Bilinguals, Hispanic, Catalán, Catalan, Spanish, Castellano, Speech Therapy, Latino, Cognition
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion Criteria: Meets diagnostic criteria for Primary Progressive Aphasia (PPA; Gorno-Tempini et al., 2011) Bilingual in Spanish and Catalan or bilingual in Spanish and English Different proficiency levels across languages are expected, any prior experience in both languages is acceptable Intervention study: Score of 15 or higher on the Mini-Mental State Examination Note that this project will also recruit individuals to participate in assessment only, for these individuals the following inclusion criteria applies: Score of 10 or higher on the Mini-Mental State Examination Exclusion Criteria: Other central nervous system or medical diagnosis that can cause symptoms Other psychiatric diagnosis that can cause symptoms Significant, uncorrected visual or hearing impairment that would interfere with participation Prominent initial non-speech-language impairments (cognitive, behavioral, motoric) Intervention Study: Score of less than 15 on the Mini-Mental State Examination Note that this project will also recruit individuals to participate in assessment only, for these individuals the following inclusion criteria applies: Score of less than 10 on the Mini-Mental State Examination
Sites / Locations
- University of Texas at AustinRecruiting
- Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant PauRecruiting
- Hospital Clínic de Barcelona
Arms of the Study
Arm 1
Arm 2
Experimental
Experimental
Lexical Retrieval Training
Video Implemented Script Training for Aphasia
Naming intervention for individuals with logopenic or semantic variant PPA.
Script training intervention for individuals with nonfluent/agrammatic PPA.