Study 3 Learning Verbs and Pronouns

New York University (NYU)

Status: Completed

Conditions: Autism Spectrum Disorder

Treatments: Behavioral: Verbs; Behavioral: Pronouns

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05193500

280523

Details and patient eligibility

About

The goal of this research is to explore abilities to learn word meanings from overheard speech in children with ASD (and, as a control, typically developing children).

Specific Aim 3 (Experiment 3): Determine whether children with ASD can learn verbs and pronouns by overhearing. Most prior work on learning from overheard speech has focused on learning nouns that label objects. This experiment extends this work to study other kinds of words.

Enrollment: 179 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 24 to 71 months old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

* children with or without a diagnosis of ASD between 24 to 71 months of age

Exclusion criteria

• native language is not English
• born premature (< 36 weeks)
• has uncorrected hearing or vision impairments
• has developmental disorders or medical conditions other than ASD that affect language or cognition (excepting psychiatric conditions often comorbid with ASD such as ADHD)
• has a history of photosensitive epileptic seizures

Trial design

Primary purpose: Basic Science

Allocation: Non-Randomized

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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179 participants in 2 patient groups

Verbs

Experimental group

Description:

Children hear a novel verb in an experimental context that is personally relevant to them (e.g., addressed, of interest) or neutral.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Verbs

Pronouns

Experimental group

Description:

Children hear a pronoun in an experimental context that is personally relevant to them (e.g., addressed, of interest) or neutral.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Pronouns