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Treatment Targets in Spanish and English Bilingual Speech Intervention
Led by Philip Combiths · Updated on 2025-09-05
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Participants Needed
1
Research Sites
151 weeks
Total Duration
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Sponsors
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Philip Combiths
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 learn which speech treatment targets result in the greatest amount of speech learning in Spanish-English bilingual children with speech sound disorders. The main questions it aims to answer are: * Does linguistic complexity of the treatment target increase the amount of generalized learning within the treated language? * Does linguistic complexity of the treatment target increase the amount of generalized speech across languages? Researchers will compare intervention effects across treatment provided in English and Spanish to see if the effect differs according to the language of intervention. Participants will: * Attend between 12 and 18 45-minute speech intervention sessions in Spanish or English for up to 6 weeks * Attend assessment visits before and after intervention * Attend follow-up assessment visits 1 month and 2 months after intervention
CONDITIONS
Official Title
Treatment Targets in Spanish and English Bilingual Speech Intervention
Who Can Participate
Eligibility Criteria
You may qualify if you...
- Participants are regularly exposed to English for at least 3 months through daily interaction with an English-speaking caregiver or sibling, or attendance at an English-speaking daycare, preschool, or elementary school
- Caregivers have reported concern about the child's speech development or reduced intelligibility in Spanish or English
- Participants have 5 or more consonants or consonant clusters missing from their phonetic inventories in each language, confirming a speech sound disorder and sufficient gaps in phonological knowledge to warrant treatment
You will not qualify if you...
- Participants who are receiving speech or language treatment elsewhere during the study
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Trial Site Locations
Total: 1 location
1
University of Iowa
Iowa City, Iowa, United States, 52242
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Research Team
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Philip Combiths
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How is the study designed?
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Masking
DOUBLE
Allocation
NON_RANDOMIZED
Model
PARALLEL
Primary Purpose
TREATMENT
Number of Arms
2
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