Language Stimuli Screening in Children

National Institutes of Health (NIH)

Status

Completed

Conditions

Healthy

Language Disorder

Study type

Observational

Funder types

NIH

Identifiers

NCT00016796

010181

01-N-0181

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study will determine baseline language skills in children 4 to 8 years old. The data will be used to design studies using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to identify what areas of the brain in children are involved in understanding language. This information is important for children who require brain surgery to control seizures.

Healthy normal volunteers between the ages of 4 and 8 years who have an IQ of 70 or more; who have no history of neurologic, psychiatric or language disorder; who are performing at or above grade level, and who are native English speakers may be eligible for this study.

Participants will be asked to do the following:

name pictures or read words that appear on a computer screen
listen to stories and answer questions about them
match pictures to a spoken word

The children's responses will be recorded.

Full description

We propose to study normal children to establish baseline data to use to develop novel sets of stimuli for functional imaging paradigms. Tasks using these stimuli will include object naming, sentence comprehension, and single word reading.

Sex

All

Volunteers

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

Children will be between the ages 4 and 8 are eligible.

Exclusion criteria

Children who meet one of the following criteria are not eligible:

IQ below 70;

History of neurologic or psychiatric disorders;

History of an language disorder;

Performing below grade-level;