ChiCTR‐TRC‐14005072.

Trial name or title	Effect of transcranial direct current stimulation on apraxia of speech
Methods	RCT
Participants	Country: China Estimated enrolment: n = 60 Inclusion criteria: 1) 1 to 3 months after the onset of a single left hemispheric stroke; 2) no previous brain injury; 3) a lesion involved in left frontal, temporal and parietal lobes; 4) aged between 15 and 75 years Exclusion criteria: 1) severely impaired auditory verbal comprehension (auditory word‐picture identification less than 6/60); 2) history of seizures; and 3) psychiatric disease or dementia
Interventions	4 arms: ‐ tDCS over Broca's area + speech‐language therapy (n = 15) ‐ tDCS over Primary Sensorimotor area + speech‐language therapy (n = 15) ‐ tDCS over Supplementary Motor area + speech‐language therapy (n = 15) ‐ sham tDCS + speech‐language therapy (n = 15)
Outcomes	Outcomes were recorded at unknown time points Primary outcome measures: ‐ BDAE‐Chinese ‐ non‐verbal evaluation ‐ verbal evaluation
Starting date	Unknown
Contact information	Dongyu WU +86 13911202927 wudongyu73@hotmail.com China‐Japan Friendship Hospital No.2, Yinghuadongjie, Chaoyang District, Beijing
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