An interventional study of speech-language therapy with AAC intervention in Down Syndrome, sponsored by University of Sao Paulo. Completed at 1 site in Brazil. Open to participants aged 5 Years to 11 Years, including healthy volunteers. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2008-06-04.
Sponsored by University of Sao Paulo · Not applicable, Interventional, and Treatment
Children with Down syndrome (DS) have language development particularities that have negative effects in the communication capacity. By this way, Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) is indicated to this population. The aim of this study was to verify the AAC impact in the lexical gain of children with DS.
Five children with DS, with the same cognitive level, participated in this study. Longitudinal follow-up of twelve months of speech-language therapy with AAC use was undertaken. A lexical evaluation was done at the beginning and the end of this follow-up. Correct responses in the lexical evaluation were increased, but not necessarily in the spoken modality. The comparisons showed significant results in use of substitutions processes, and to no-answers.
438 studies on the registry are indexed under Down Syndrome; 100 are open to participants now.
This study's enrollment of 5 is below the median of 36 across 285 interventional studies indexed under Down Syndrome.
Browse Down Syndrome studies →University of Sao Paulo is the lead sponsor of 1,030 studies on the registry; 92 are open to participants now.
Of its 8 completed or terminated interventional studies of FDA-regulated products, 0 (0%) have results posted.
Counted across the registry records on this site, refreshed daily.
Go through the criteria one by one — yes, no or not sure — and take the list to your doctor or the study team. Kept in this browser only.
Exclusion Criteria:
Study Group: five children with Down syndrome submitted to speech-language intervention with AAC intervention
Behavioral: speech-language therapy with AAC intervention
speech-language intervention in weekly 40-minutes sessions, without the presence of parents or caregivers, and 5 to 10-minutes to parents training and orientation
Performance on a initial and final lexical assessments, after 12 months of speech-language therapy
Time frame: 12 months
Performance on longitudinal follow-up of twelve months of speech-language therapy with AAC use
Time frame: 12 months
The record gives a start of Jul 2005, a primary completion of Oct 2007 and a completion of Jun 2008. It does not say whether these dates are actual or estimated.
How these figures are worked out, and which studies are left out of them.
This study is completed, as verified in Jun 2008. You cannot join it, but the record below documents what was studied.
Get an email when the registry record changes — status, dates, results — or when someone posts here.
Sign in to followQuestions and observations about this study, from anyone following it. Not medical advice, and not a channel to the study team — their contact details are on the registry record.
Sign in to join the discussion. Reading takes no account; posting does. You choose a display name, and a pseudonym is the default.
Nothing here yet. If you are running this trial, taking part in it, or weighing whether to, this is the place to say so.