Actively Recruiting
Online Rotating Delivery of Perception/Production Enhanced Treatment for Rhotics
Led by Montclair State University · Updated on 2025-05-29
60
Participants Needed
1
Research Sites
111 weeks
Total Duration
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Sponsors
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Montclair State University
Lead Sponsor
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National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD)
Collaborating Sponsor
AI-Summary
What this Trial Is About
The goal of this clinical trial is to determine whether perceptual training enhances speech perception and production outcomes in children with Residual Speech Sound Disorders (RSSD). The main questions it aims to answer are: Does pre-treatment speech production accuracy predict treatment response? Does perceptual acuity influence the effectiveness of perception-first versus production-first interventions? Researchers will compare TAU+Perception-first and TAU-first treatment conditions to see if the order of intervention affects speech improvement outcomes, particularly based on participants' initial perception and production accuracy. Participants will: Complete pre-treatment evaluations to assess /r/ production and speech perception. Be grouped into high or low production and perception accuracy categories based on established thresholds. Be randomly assigned (using a blocked randomization procedure) to one of two treatment arms via telepractice. Participate in the assigned treatment condition designed to target speech sound accuracy. Randomization is stratified to ensure treatment groups are balanced based on pre-treatment severity in both the perception and production domains.
CONDITIONS
Official Title
Online Rotating Delivery of Perception/Production Enhanced Treatment for Rhotics
Who Can Participate
Eligibility Criteria
You may qualify if you...
- Between 8 and 17 years old at enrollment
- English is the dominant language, learned by age 2
- Speaks a rhotic dialect of English
- Passed a pure-tone hearing screening at 20dB hearing level
- Passed a brief oral structure and function exam
- Less than 30% accuracy on /r/ sound production in word-level probes
- No more than 3 speech sound errors other than /r/ on the Goldman-Fristoe Test of Articulation-3
You will not qualify if you...
- T score more than 1.3 SD below the mean on WASI-2 Matrix Reasoning
- Scaled score of 7 or higher on CELF-5 Recalling Sentences and Formulated Sentences subtests
- Diagnosis of developmental disability or major neurobehavioral syndrome such as cerebral palsy, Down Syndrome, or Autism Spectrum Disorder
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Trial Site Locations
Total: 1 location
1
Montclair State University
Montclair, New Jersey, United States, 07403
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Research Team
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Elaine R. Hitchcock, PhD
CONTACT
How is the study designed?
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Masking
SINGLE
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Model
CROSSOVER
Primary Purpose
TREATMENT
Number of Arms
3
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