Use of an AI-powered Mobile Health App in Assessing and Training Oral Motor Functions
Key facts
- Who runs it
- The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
- Where
- Hong Kong and Singapore2 sites in 2 countriesChoose a country to see its sites
- Trial code
- Status
- Recruiting
- People taking part
- 405 people, planned
- Started
- 1 Feb 2026
- Expected to end
- 31 Aug 2028
- Type of study
- Observational, 2 groups
- Treatments tested
- Feasibility and user acceptance of mobile app for oral motor training
- Record updated
- 12 November 2026
Who can take part
- Age
- 21 years to 79 years
- Sex
- Women and men
- Healthy volunteers
- Can take part
The registry criteria, word for word
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Who can take part
- (1) Adults aged 21-79 years who are Singapore citizens
- (2) Absence of severe systemic conditions, including uncontrolled diabetes, cerebrovascular disease, head and neck tumours, or neurological disorders
- (3) Not currently undergoing radiation therapy or chemotherapy
- (4) Normal or corrected-to-normal vision and hearing
- (5) Fluent in Malay/ English respectively
- (6) No history of speech difficulties/disorders
- (1) Adults aged 21-79 years who are Singapore citizens
- (2) Absence of severe systemic conditions, including uncontrolled diabetes, cerebrovascular disease, head and neck tumours, or neurological disorders
- (3) Not currently undergoing radiation therapy or chemotherapy
- (4) Normal or corrected-to-normal vision and hearing
- (5) Fluent in Malay/ English respectively; Additional inclusion criteria for SLTs:
- (1) AHPC licensed
- (2) have been practising in Singapore for at least one year
Who cannot take part
- (2) individuals unable to provide informed consent due to cognitive impairment
- (1) individuals who are dependent on non-oral feeding
Check if you might fit
Answer for yourself. This is not a decision: only the study team can say whether you can take part.
- Are you between 21 and 79 years old?
This trial has no sites in United States.
It has sites in 2 countries. Choose a country to see its sites.
About the trial
What the trial wants to find out
This project aims to evaluate the usability of the ORAR app developed by HKPU and normed on the Hong Kong Chinese population, with the Singapore Malay and Chinese population.
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It aims to:
1. Establish normative data of the oromotor performance of neurologically healthy bilinguals of Malay ethnicity and/or Chinese ethnicity across a range of speech and non-speech tasks. 2. Determine the factors (e.g., gender, age, education, type of stimuli, ethnicity) that influence oro-motor performance of Malay and Chinese adults respectively in Singapore. 3. Collect feedback to evaluate the usability, acceptability and feasibility of the ORAR app from different users, namely the SLTs, persons with dysarthria and their caregivers.
The 2 groups in the trial
- healthy adults
For the normative study: 150 individuals of Malay descent (e.g., Boyanese, Javanese, Banjarese, Bugis, and Indonesian extract) and 150 bilingual Chinese individuals. Another 35 speech-language therapists and carers of dysarthric pateints will be recruited. Inclusion criteria for healthy adults in the normative study, as well as SLTs and caregivers of individuals with dysarthria in the implementation study are as follows: (1) Adults aged 21-79 years who are Singapore citizens, (2)absence of severe systemic conditions, including uncontrolled diabetes, cerebrovascular disease, head and neck tumours, or neurological disorders, (3) not currently undergoing radiation therapy or chemotherapy, (4) normal or corrected-to-normal vision and hearing, (5) fluent in Malay/ English respectively, (6) no history of speech difficulties/disorders. Additional inclusion criteria for SLTs are: (1) AHPC licensed and (2) have been practising in Singapore for at least one year.
- Dysarthria group
35 individuals with neurogenic dysarthria will be recruited. For the implementation study, inclusion criteria for participants with dysarthria include (1) to (5) above, with the exception of a history of stroke, and being diagnosed with an acquired speech sound disorder by an SLT. Exclusion criteria include (1) individuals who are dependent on non-oral feeding, (2) individuals unable to provide informed consent due to cognitive impairment. Written or digital consent will be obtained from all participants prior to participation.
Treatment: Feasibility and user acceptance of mobile app for oral motor training
Questions to ask the study team
- How often do I need to come in, and for how long each time?
- Are travel costs paid?
- Can I keep my own doctor?
- What happens if I want to stop?
Contact the study team: see the registry record → Contacts and Locations
Print a page for my doctorData and sources
- Registry record
- Listed on ClinicalTrials.gov.
- Fit questions
- Built from NCT07931898, who can take part
- Record updated
- 12 November 2026