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Speech Production Enhancement Using Augmentative Communication for Kids
Led by University of Wisconsin, Madison · Updated on 2026-05-11
100
Participants Needed
1
Research Sites
165 weeks
Total Duration
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Sponsors
U
University of Wisconsin, Madison
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 clinical trial is to learn if speech supplementation can improve speech intelligibility in children ages 7 to 17 years with cerebral palsy. The main questions it aims to answer are: * To what extent can speech supplementation improve intelligibility in children with CP compared with habitual speech produced without speech supplementation? * How much intelligibility change is necessary for meaningful improvement when children use speech supplementation strategies? Participants will: * complete speech and language assessments * complete a speech pre-test using habitual speech * learn a speech supplementation strategy with training from a speech-language pathologist * complete a speech post-test using the speech supplementation strategy * complete a speech repetition task where specific words are emphasized (emphatic stress) * use the previously learned speech supplementation strategy + emphasis on specific words while producing a set of sentences
CONDITIONS
Official Title
Speech Production Enhancement Using Augmentative Communication for Kids
Who Can Participate
Eligibility Criteria
You may qualify if you...
- Medical diagnosis of cerebral palsy, or a similar, related condition that affects early motor development and presents as a chronic motor disability
- Age between 7 and 17 years
- Clinical dysarthria with speech intelligibility between 10-85 percent
- Able to produce connected speech in English, with a minimum utterance length of 3 words
- Able to use hands to point to items on a communication board
- Cognitive/language skills that enable basic picture identification on a communication board
- Pass pure tone hearing screening
You will not qualify if you...
- Failure to meet all inclusion criteria
- Vision impairment that precludes being able to see items on a communication board
- Not suitable for participation due to other reasons at the discretion of the investigators
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Trial Site Locations
Total: 1 location
1
University of Wisconsin-Madison Waisman Center
Madison, Wisconsin, United States, 53705
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Research Team
W
WISC Lab
CONTACT
H
Heather Mabie
CONTACT
How is the study designed?
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Masking
NONE
Allocation
NA
Model
SINGLE_GROUP
Primary Purpose
TREATMENT
Number of Arms
1
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