Experimental Word Learning in Children With and Without Language Impairment

University of Sao Paulo

Status: Completed

Conditions: Developmental Language Disorders

Treatments: Behavioral: Word-learning

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT00607334

24061316

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to compare the performances of normally developing children and children with Language Impairment (LI) in three different experimental settings designed to promote vocabulary acquisition. This comparison will also provide evidence to support different intervention approaches designed to increase vocabulary abilities, which has been proved to be one of the major deficits of young children with LI.

Enrollment: 51 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 36 to 47 months old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• For GP subjects: - diagnosis of Language Impairment
• enrolled in language therapy
• age between 3:0 (years:months) and 3:11
• For GC subjects: - normal performance in a language screening procedure
• normal performance in an expressive vocabulary test

Exclusion criteria

• For GP subjects: - hearing impairments
• diagnosed neurological or behavioral conditions
• major cognitive impairment
• For GC subjects: - communication complaints from caregivers
• history of previous enrollment in language therapy

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Non-Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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51 participants in 2 patient groups

GP

Experimental group

Description:

Children with Developmental Language Impairments were enrolled in this group.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Word-learning

Behavioral: Word-learning

GC

Experimental group

Description:

Children with normal language development were enrolled in this group.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Word-learning

Behavioral: Word-learning