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Effects of Aphasia Identification Cards on Service Workers' Comprehension of People With Aphasia

University of Massachusetts, Amherst · with National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD) · NCT06990997

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Key facts

Compensation
Not posted. Ask the study team before screening.
Who can join
Ages 18–59 · All sexes
Healthy volunteers
Accepted
Study type
Interventional · Not applicable
Target enrollment
160
US sites recruiting
1
Study start
September 22, 2025
Record last updated
August 14, 2026

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What the study is about

The goal of this clinical trial is to learn whether healthy volunteers are more successful at understanding people with aphasia if they have first viewed an aphasia identification (ID) card. The main questions this study aims to answer are:

  • Does viewing an aphasia ID card improve healthy volunteers' understanding of the language errors made by people with aphasia?
  • Does viewing an aphasia ID card improve healthy volunteers' understanding of people with aphasia who make long pauses in their speech?

Researchers will compare aphasia ID cards to a control condition (no ID card) to see whether aphasia ID cards improve healthy volunteers' understanding.

Healthy volunteers will visit the study site for a single session (about 2 hours long). During the session they will:

  • Complete brief tests of their vision, hearing and thinking
  • Listen to sentences produced by a speaker with aphasia while their eye movements are recorded
  • Complete a survey about the experience of listening to the speaker with aphasia

Being studied: Aphasia identification (ID) card

Conditions: Aphasia

Eligibility criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

  • Adult age 18-59
  • Currently employed as a service worker
  • Understand spoken and written English well
  • High school diploma or equivalency
  • Normal vision or corrected vision with glasses or contact lenses

Exclusion Criteria

  • Language disorder
  • Hearing impairment
  • Intellectual disability
  • History of acquired neurological disorder (e.g., stroke or moderate/severe brain injury)

Recruiting US locations

  • UMass Amherst Henry M. Thomas III Center at Springfield

    Springfield, MA 01115

    Site contact: Jennifer E Mack, PhD · 413-545-8468 · jemack@umass.edu

Study contacts (from the official record)

  • Jennifer E Mack, PhD · 4135458468 · jemack@umass.edu
  • Holly Laws, PhD · hlaws@umass.edu
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