Pivotal Response Treatment for Individuals With Intellectual Disabilities

Stanford University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Intellectual Disabilities; Language Disorder; Speech Delay

Treatments: Behavioral: Pivotal Response Treatment (PRT)

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01988623

IRB-25229

Details and patient eligibility

About

The investigators will assess the efficacy of Pivotal Response Treatment (PRT) in the treatment of communication deficits in children with intellectual disabilities. By collecting information about parent and child functioning before and after PRT, The investigators will be able to determine whether the intervention is effective in improving child communication and reducing parent stress.

Enrollment: 21 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 2 to 17 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion and exclusion criteria

Inclusion Criteria for Individuals with Intellectual Disabilities:

• Participants will have an age range between 2 and 17.11 years of age inclusive
• Male or female
• Diagnosis of an intellectual disability based on the fourth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-IV-TR), the 10th revision of the International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems (ICD-10), and an expert clinical evaluation
• have historical evidence of significant abnormal developmental milestones as determined by neurological history
• care provider that will reliably bring subject to study visits, and is trustworthy to provide accurate accounts of services provided to the subject

Inclusion Criteria for Individuals with Speech Delay/Language Disorder:

• Participants will have an age range between 2 and 17.11 years of age inclusive
• Male or female
• Diagnosis of a speech delay based on the fourth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-IV-TR), the 10th revision of the International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems (ICD-10), and an expert clinical evaluation
• Preschool Language scale (PLS) score of at least 1 standard deviations below age level (for children in the age range of 2-6.11)
• care provider that will reliably bring subject to study visits, and is trustworthy to provide accurate accounts of services provided to the subject

Exclusion Criteria:

• medically unstable (such as having unstable seizures)
• primary diagnosis of Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is exclusionary as determined by the investigators

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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21 participants in 1 patient group

Pivotal Response Treatment (PRT)

Experimental group

Treatment:

Behavioral: Pivotal Response Treatment (PRT)