The Use of a Language Toolkit for Toddlers

University of North Carolina (UNC)

Status: Completed

Conditions: Language Acquisition

Treatments: Behavioral: Language toolkit; Behavioral: Safety counseling

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT00926510

09-0549

Details and patient eligibility

About

To investigate whether young children with isolated expressive language delay benefit from early intervention with a simple language toolkit and brief instructions provided to their caregivers.

We hypothesize that children whose families are provided the language toolkit will develop more words over the subsequent 3 months.

Enrollment: 40 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 14 to 19 months old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Age 14.5 to 18.5 months
• Below average expressive language
• Otherwise normal development

Exclusion criteria

• Other developmental delay
• Non-English primary language

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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40 participants in 2 patient groups, including a placebo group

Language Toolkit

Experimental group

Description:

Language toolkit composed of simple tools that parents can use to interact with child and help language acquisition.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Language toolkit

2

Placebo Comparator group

Description:

Safety counseling and smoke detector

Treatment:

Behavioral: Safety counseling