Speech-Language Treatment With Remotely Supervised Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation in Primary Progressive Aphasia

Inclusion Criteria

• •Because PPA is a rare disease, the study aims to recruit all eligible participants with PPA who are referred to the Aphasia Research and Treatment Lab at the University of Texas (UT) Austin, the UT/Dell Medical School Department of Neurology, and the University of California at San Francisco (UCSF) Memory and Aging Center, as well as individuals with PPA from other clinical and research sites. The study will aim to include males, females, and transgender or non-binary individuals. Great efforts will be made to recruit participants from minority populations, subject to the limitation that participants need to be fluent speakers of English.
• •Meets diagnostic criteria for PPA
• •Meets diagnostic criteria for a specific variant of PPA
• •Score of 20 or higher on the Mini-Mental State Examination
• •Adequate hearing and vision (with hearing or vision aids, if needed)
• •Has a study partner that can co-enroll in the study and attend pre-treatment training as well as continue to be present for weekly teleconference meetings
• •Able and willing to undergo MRI brain scan
• •Access to high speed internet