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Emergent Bilinguals: Child Language Proficiency and Language of Treatment
Led by University of Houston · Updated on 2025-03-10
40
Participants Needed
1
Research Sites
189 weeks
Total Duration
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Sponsors
U
University of Houston
Lead Sponsor
N
National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD)
Collaborating Sponsor
AI-Summary
What this Trial Is About
Of the 12 million children in the USA growing up bilingual, about 1 million experience Developmental Language Disorder (DLD), a disorder in language learning and use. Currently there is no guidance for speech language pathologists (SLPs) as to the language of intervention for emergent Spanish-English bilingual children with DLD. This project will examine the relationship between language proficiency and the language of intervention, considering monolingual intervention (Spanish or English) and interleaved Spanish-English intervention with the goal of improving language outcomes and thereby strengthening long-term academic achievement
CONDITIONS
Official Title
Emergent Bilinguals: Child Language Proficiency and Language of Treatment
Who Can Participate
Eligibility Criteria
You may qualify if you...
- Parent concerns and/or history of receiving services in public schools
- Age-specific cutoff scores on morphosyntax subtests for best language on the Bilingual English Spanish Assessment: 84 for 4-year-olds, 85 for 5-year-olds, 81 for 6-year-olds
- Nonverbal IQ score of 70 or higher on the Kaufman Brief Intelligence Test-2 matrices subtest
- Passing a hearing screening test
- Emergent bilingual children producing at least simple sentences in spontaneous speech in Spanish or English and exposed to both languages
- Ability to benefit from treatment for conditional adverbial clauses and complement clauses with accuracy below 40% on 10-item elicited production probes in both languages
You will not qualify if you...
- Children with significant sensory-motor concerns or psychiatric disorders as reported by parents will not be enrolled
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Trial Site Locations
Total: 1 location
1
University of Houston
Houston, Texas, United States, 77204
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How is the study designed?
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Masking
SINGLE
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Model
CROSSOVER
Primary Purpose
TREATMENT
Number of Arms
2
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