Effectiveness of Early Parent-Based Language Intervention

Heidelberg University

Status and phase: Unknown; Phase 3

Conditions: Developmental Language Disorders; Language Delay

Treatments: Other: Heidelberg Parent-based Language Intervention HPLI

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT00625261

243/2002

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of the study is to examine the effectiveness of a highly-structured parent-based language intervention group program for two-year-old children with language delay.

Full description

Language delay in toddlers is a prevalent problem for pediatric practitioners. As there are no clear guidelines to deal with this problem, in German speaking countries the "wait-and-see"approach is widely chosen, although longitudinal studies have found that children with language delay are at risc for cognitive, behavioral and social-emotional problems.

During the last few years various forms of early language intervention have been increasingly implemented in German speaking countries. However, they have not been evaluated.

Early parent-based intervention could be an economical way in prevention speech and language disorders.

Enrollment: 150 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 24 to 27 months old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Children with receptive and/or expressive language abilities below norm range measured by the standardized and norm-referenced German developmental language test SETK-2 (Grimm, 2000)

Exclusion criteria

• Children with visual impairments, genetic syndromes, metabolic diseases
• Children with previous language intervention

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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150 participants in 2 patient groups

1

Experimental group

Description:

The mothers of the two-years old children in the intervention group took part at the Heidelberg Parent-based Language Intervention HPLI

Treatment:

Other: Heidelberg Parent-based Language Intervention HPLI

2

No Intervention group

Description:

Waiting group, no intervention until children were three years of age