LANGUAGE USE AT HOME

Adults over the age of 45 are needed. We are conducting a research study to determine how and how much people communicate at home. We want to investigate the quantity and quality of conversations that occur there.

You will be asked to the following:

• Participate in a testing session for basic information such as hearing and basic language function.
• Participate in a conversation with someone who lives in your home.
• Participate in a conversation with a speech language pathologist.
• Fill out a rating scale as to how much you think you talk at home compared to other members of your family.
• Wear a device for two days that will record conversations and provide automated counts of words and conversational turns.
• Keep a diary of your communication activities.

This study will be supervised by Jennifer Mozeiko, PhD, CCC-SLP, Connecticut licensed speech and language pathologist. 
You qualify if you have aphasia OR if you are healthy with no neurological disease or deficit. 
Benefits: 
You may have the results of any testing provided. There are no other direct benefits but you will be helping us to learn about the way people use language at home. This could have implications as to how we create treatments for people with aphasia or others who might be at risk to lose language skills without sufficient practice. 
Participants and their partner/family member will each be paid $15/hour for any testing, $10/day for travel to the UCONN clinic, and $25/day for wearing the device.

For more information or to sign up, please contact research assistant Kaleigh Frame.
Email: Kaleigh.Frame@uconn.edu or Call: (203) 501-0011

UConn IRB PROTOCOL H10-124 APPROVED 6/28/19