Language Learning and Language Experience

Montclair State University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Typically Developing Children Ages 3 to 6

Treatments: Behavioral: Orthographic facilitation

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06645145

IRB-FY24-25-3948

Details and patient eligibility

About

The goal of this clinical trial is to learn if text can support children in learning new verbs in healthy children ages three through six. The main questions it aims to answer are:

Does text support help children learn new verbs? Does a child's relative benefit from text support vary according to their literacy skills?

Participants will

• Watch videos of actions and hear novel words
• Name alphabet sounds to determine their literacy skills

Enrollment: 170 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 36 to 84 months old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion and exclusion criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• Primarily exposed to English
• Typical development
• Hearing and vision within normal limits or corrected to be so

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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170 participants in 2 patient groups

Verb learning with only visual and auditory support

No Intervention group

Description:

This is "gold standard" learning scenario for young children.

Verb learning with auditory, visual, and text support

Experimental group

Description:

Participants receive the added support of text to determine if this additional support helps them learn novel words with higher accuracy.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Orthographic facilitation