Status:

NOT_YET_RECRUITING

Treating Passive Structure Knowledge Deficits in School-Age Children With Developmental Language Disorder

Lead Sponsor:

Ohio University

Collaborating Sponsors:

National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD)

Conditions:

Developmental Language Disorders

Eligibility:

All Genders

8-11 years

Phase:

NA

Brief Summary

The goal of this project is to compare the relative effectiveness of two novel treatments to improve the knowledge of the passive sentence structure of school-age (8-11-year-old) children with develop...

Detailed Description

AIMS For later-developing language skills, including those involving complex sentence forms, there are not only very few treatment studies, but effect sizes for the few that exist are quite modest. T...

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion

  • Language impairment: standard score of 34 or lower on the Test of Language and Learning Skills
  • Nonverbal IQ: nonverbal quotient of 77 or higher
  • Normal range hearing
  • Normal or corrected vision
  • Native English speaker
  • Sentence comprehension screening/sentence chunking screening 50% or lower

Exclusion

  • Neurodevelopmental disorder
  • Emotional/behavioral disorder
  • Frank neurological disorder
  • Treatment for complex syntax from outside clinician

Key Trial Info

Start Date :

September 1 2025

Trial Type :

INTERVENTIONAL

Allocation :

ESTIMATED

End Date :

April 30 2029

Estimated Enrollment :

150 Patients enrolled

Trial Details

Trial ID

NCT06932016

Start Date

September 1 2025

End Date

April 30 2029

Last Update

April 20 2025

Active Locations (4)

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1

University of Arizona

Tucson, Arizona, United States, 85721

2

Ohio University

Athens, Ohio, United States, 45701

3

Utah State University

Logan, Utah, United States, 84322

4

West Virginia University

Morgantown, West Virginia, United States, 26506