Effects of Aphasia Identification Cards on Service Workers' Comprehension of People With Aphasia
Effects of Aphasia Identification Cards on Comprehension of Aphasic Language by Unfamiliar Communication Partners
Who can join
Ages 18 to 59 · All sexes · Healthy volunteers welcome
Full eligibility criteria
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)
About the study
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
What is being tested
- Aphasia identification (ID) card (behavioral)
Sponsor: University of Massachusetts, Amherst · Participants: 160 · Started: Sep 22, 2025
Contact the study team
- Jennifer E Mack, PhD · Phone: 4135458468
Official record on ClinicalTrials.gov — NCT06990997
Locations in the U.S.
| Massachusetts | UMass Amherst Henry M. Thomas III Center at Springfield, Springfield |
Conditions
From ClinicalTrials.gov, data retrieved Sep 29, 2026. Each study sets its own eligibility; the study team decides who can join.