Actively Recruiting
More and Less Social Comprehension
Led by University of Kansas Medical Center · Updated on 2025-04-04
50
Participants Needed
1
Research Sites
125 weeks
Total Duration
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Sponsors
U
University of Kansas Medical Center
Lead Sponsor
N
National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD)
Collaborating Sponsor
AI-Summary
What this Trial Is About
The goal of this early Phase 1 clinical trial is to assess if the social content of a story impacts autistic children's listening comprehension of stories. The main questions this study aims to answer are: * Does removing social content from a story improve listening comprehension in autistic children? * Does listening comprehension of more social versus less social stories differentially predict performance on a standardized reading comprehension measure? Participants will listen to more social and less social stories while viewing accompanying pictures and answer comprehension questions about the stories and complete a standardized assessment of reading comprehension. In addition, participants complete measures of their nonverbal cognition, hearing status, autism severity, language abilities, and social communication abilities to help characterize individual differences in participants.
CONDITIONS
Official Title
More and Less Social Comprehension
Who Can Participate
Eligibility Criteria
You may qualify if you...
- Has a community or educational autism diagnosis (based on parent report)
- Is between the ages of 9 years 0 months and 12 years 11 months
- Uses verbal phrase-level spoken language (based on parent report)
You will not qualify if you...
- Speaks more than one language (based on parent report)
- Has a known chromosomal abnormality such as Fragile X syndrome or Down syndrome (based on parent report)
- Has an intellectual impairment or cognitive disability (IQ less than 70; based on parent report)
- Has cerebral palsy (based on parent report)
- Has uncorrected visual impairments (based on parent report)
- Has minimal spoken language or no phrase spoken language (based on parent report or clinical observation)
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Trial Site Locations
Total: 1 location
1
University of Kansas Comprehension and Language Learning Lab
Lawrence, Kansas, United States, 66045
Actively Recruiting
Research Team
M
Meghan M Davidson, PhD, CCC-SLP
CONTACT
T
Thomas Gottstein
CONTACT
How is the study designed?
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Masking
NONE
Allocation
NA
Model
SINGLE_GROUP
Primary Purpose
BASIC_SCIENCE
Number of Arms
1
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