Intensive speech therapy could transform life after stroke
NCT ID NCT07386652
First seen Feb 04, 2026
Summary
This study tests whether an intensive, personalized speech therapy program (ICAP) can improve communication and quality of life for people with aphasia after a stroke. Researchers will compare ICAP (100 hours over 4 weeks) to standard NHS care in 334 adults who are at least 3 months post-stroke. The main goal is to see if ICAP leads to meaningful improvements in quality of life at 4 months.
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UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology
London, WC1N3AZ, United Kingdom
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What this could mean
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Active substance
Intensive Comprehensive Aphasia Programme (ICAP) - a personalized, intensive speech and language therapy
What this could lead to
If successful, this could provide strong evidence for a new NHS treatment that meaningfully improves communication and quality of life for people with aphasia after stroke.
What could go wrong
This is the first randomized trial of ICAP, so results are uncertain. The therapy is very intensive (100 hours over 4 weeks), which may be hard for some participants to complete.
Conditions
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