Status:

RECRUITING

Syntactic Intervention for Cantonese-speaking Children With DLD

Lead Sponsor:

The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Conditions:

Developmental Language Disorder

Eligibility:

All Genders

5-8 years

Phase:

NA

Brief Summary

The goal of this clinical trial is to compare the efficacy of explicit vs. implicit intervention on subject relative clause production in Cantonese-speaking children with Developmental Language Disord...

Detailed Description

This project is the first to adopt a randomized controlled trial (RCT) to compare the efficacy of explicit vs. implicit intervention on relative clause production (subject relative clause in object po...

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion

  • being Cantonese dominant who learned Cantonese as their first language and attending Cantonese-medium primary schools.
  • having normal IQ and no hearing impairment.
  • scoring at least -1.25 SD below the mean in any two subtests of the Hong Kong Cantonese Oral Language Assessment Scale (a standardized language assessment tool for Hong Kong Cantonese-speaking children).

Exclusion

  • Autism Spectrum Disorder.

Key Trial Info

Start Date :

February 10 2024

Trial Type :

INTERVENTIONAL

Allocation :

ESTIMATED

End Date :

May 1 2026

Estimated Enrollment :

32 Patients enrolled

Trial Details

Trial ID

NCT06954194

Start Date

February 10 2024

End Date

May 1 2026

Last Update

May 4 2025

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Speech and Language Sciences Laboratory (SLS Lab)

Hong Kong, Hong Kong