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A feasibility study for an improvised singing and language-based protocol for people with aphasia: music Enriched verb network strengthening treatment (MeVNest)
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PurposeThe present study aims to understand the feasibility and preliminary outcomes of the newly developed transdisciplinary Music-Based Intervention (MBI) based on Verb Network Strengthening Treatment (Music Enriched VNeST; MeVNeST) for people with aphasia (PWA).MethodFour people with chronic aphasia completed the study (P1, P2, P3, and P4), three of whom presented with co-occurring apraxia of speech (AOS). P1 and P2 completed Experiment 1, which used an ABACA design to examine the feasibility of three weeks of MeVNeST (6 hours) compared to three weeks of VNeST (6 hours). P3 and P4 completed Experiment 2, which used a multiple baseline design across participants to investigate effects of treatment after seven weeks of MeVNeST (14 hours). The primary goal of Experiments 1 and 2 was to examine acceptability and feasibility of MeVNeST. The secondary goal was to examine treatment effects. Thus, weekly probes for trained and untrained verbs, as well as a control task (adjective synonym generation), were collected.ResultsMeVNeST was implemented with acceptable fidelity in Experiments 1 and 2. MeVNeST also demonstrated high acceptability. Participants considered both VNeST and MeVNeST to be very fun, and reported a preference for treatments that incorporated music. Secondary analyses examined treatment effects on probe measures. In Experiment 1, P1 showed a small effect on trained verbs on VNeST (d = 2.31) and semantically-related untrained verbs on MeVNeST (d = 2.89). In Experiment 2, P3 showed a medium effect (d = 5.31) on trained items following MeVNeST.ConclusionsThis study suggests that MeVNeST is a feasible and potentially effective treatment approach that warrants further research. Notably, participants with co-occurring aphasia and AOS showed measurable treatment effects following a small dose of treatment, suggesting that MeVNeST may hold promise for this population.
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Aphasia
apraxia of speech
music
singing
semantic therapy
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