Early Intervention in Very Preterm Children

Erasmus University

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Prematurity; Speech Sound Disorder

Treatments: Other: Early parent-based speech intervention program

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01352481

NL33278.078.10

Details and patient eligibility

About

• The aim of the present study is to examine the effectiveness of a short, highly structured parent based speech intervention program on speech development in very preterm children with a Speech Sound Disorder (SSD) at 2 years of age.
• The hypothesis of this study is that early intervention on speech development is effective in improving the speech development in preterm children with SSD at 2 years of age compared to a no treatment group (usual care at this age).

Enrollment: 25 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 24 to 27 months old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion and exclusion criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• birth weight < 1500 grams or gestational age < 32 weeks
• singleton birth
• no major neurodevelopmental disabilities, and
• Dutch speaking family background

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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25 participants in 2 patient groups

Intervention group

Experimental group

Treatment:

Other: Early parent-based speech intervention program

Control group

No Intervention group

Treatment:

Other: Early parent-based speech intervention program