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Treating Complex Grammar Knowledge Deficits in School-Age Children With Developmental Language Disorder

RecruitingNAAges 8 Years - 11 YearsAllOhio University
NCT06911138 on ClinicalTrials.gov ↗
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What the trial is, and whether it could suit you

The goal of this project is to compare the relative effectiveness of two novel treatments to improve the complex grammar knowledge of school-age (8-11-year-old) children with developmental language disorder (DLD). Treatment 1 is an implicit approach to promoting children's automatic grammar learning and Treatment 2 is a more conventional explicit approach in which participants are taught the rules underlying the grammar. Treatment 1 involves children listening to an examiner produce a target sentence 20 times during each training session while describing a picture. The children will then see a picture and be asked to describe the action taking place. Treatment 2 involves children listening to an examiner describe the action occurring in a picture using a sentence pattern targeted to the child's deficit. The child will then be asked who did the action in the sentence and who received the

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📋 Eligibility rules (as published)
Inclusion Criteria: * Language impairment: standard score of 34 or lower on the Test of Language and Learning Skills * Nonverbal IQ: nonverbal quotient of 77 or higher * Normal range hearing * Normal or corrected vision * Native English speaker * Sentence comprehension screening/sentence chunking screening 50% or lower Exclusion Criteria: * Neurodevelopmental disorder * Emotional/behavioral disorder * Frank neurological disorder * Treatment for complex syntax from outside clinician
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What it tests

  • Behavorial
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Where

4 sites
University of Arizona
Tucson, United States
Ohio University
Athens, United States
Utah State University
Logan, United States
West Virginia University
Morgantown, United States
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