Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2019
DOI
10.21849/cacd.2019.00087
Publication Title
Clinical Archives of Communication Disorders
Volume
4
Pages
53-59
Abstract
Purpose: Listening in noise challenges listeners with auditory comprehension impairments in aphasia. We examined the effects of Trivia Game, a computerized program with questions spoken in increasing levels of background noise with success in the game.
Methods: We piloted Trivia Game in four individuals with chronic aphasia and mild auditory comprehension impairments. Participants played Trivia Game for 12 twenty-minute sessions. In addition to the Western Aphasia Battery (WAB), we measured outcomes on Quick Speech in Noise (QSIN), a sentence repetition test, administered in auditory (AUD) and auditory+visual (AV) conditions as signal-to-noise ratio varied from 25 to 0 dB.
Results: All four participants showed progress within the game in the noise level attained. Increases in repetition accuracy were seen in two participants for the QSIN AUD condition (average of 5.5 words), and in three participants for QSIN AV (average of 16.5 words). One individual increased performance on the WAB.
Conclusions: Use of Trivia Game led to improved auditory processing abilities in all four individuals with aphasia. Greater gains noted in the AV condition over AUD suggest that Trivia Game may facilitate speech-reading skills to support comprehension of speech in situations with background noise.
ORCID
0000-0002-5661-8630 (Raymer), 0000-0003-3376-0252 (Ringleb)
Original Publication Citation
Raymer, A., Sandberg, H., Schwartz, K., Watson, G., & Ringleb, S. (2019). Treatment of auditory processing in noise in individuals with mild aphasia: Pilot study. Clinical Archives of Communication Disorders, 4, 53-59. https://doi.org/10.21849/cacd.2019.00087
Repository Citation
Raymer, Anastasia M.; Sandberg, Hilary M.; Schwartz, Kathryn S.; Watson, Ginger S.; and Ringleb, Stacie I., "Treatment of Auditory Processing in Noise in Individuals With Mild Aphasia: Pilot Study" (2019). Communication Disorders & Special Education Faculty Publications. 59.
https://digitalcommons.odu.edu/cdse_pubs/59
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Comments
This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.