An observational study in Speech Disorders in Children, sponsored by Samanth Burr. Status unknown at 1 site in United Kingdom. Open to participants aged 24 Months to 66 Months. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2020-03-17.
Sponsored by Samanth Burr · Observational
This study will look at whether there is a relationship between how babies are fed, whether they suck a dummy/hand and how they develop speech.
Background:
In the UK every year around 48,000 children aged 2-5 years are referred to NHS Speech \& Language Therapy (SLT) services with difficulties using the right sounds in their talking. This is known as speech sound disorders (SSD). This is the largest population seen by Speech and Language Therapists and costs the NHS about £24 million per year.
Children with SSD are more at risk of mental health problems and difficulties making relationships with those around them. They are also more likely to struggle with learning at school and be involved with the criminal justice system at some point in their early lives. When a baby is born parents make different choices about feeding their baby. Some breastfeed, some bottle-feed and some use a mixture of both. Some babies also like to have a dummy, while others suck their hand and some don't suck anything. Some studies have found that breastfeeding is linked to better language and learning in later childhood, while others have found that dummy sucking has the opposite effect.
However, the effect that different types of feeding have on speech development has not been looked at in as much detail.
77 studies on the registry are indexed under Speech Disorders; 20 are open to participants now.
This study's planned enrollment of 135 is above the median of 50 across 23 observational studies indexed under Speech Disorders.
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Children aged 2;0-5;6 on current speech and language therapy clinical caseloads in Hampshire (Solent NHS Trust) who have a diagnosis of speech sound disorder.
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Exclusion Criteria:
Children diagnosed with speech sound disorder aged 2-5 years
Other: Speech Sound Assessment
Formal standardised speech sound assessment typically used as part of standard NHS care by Speech and language Therapists
Also known as: Diagnostic Evaluation of Articulation and Phonology (DEAP)
Percentage of Consonants Correct (PCC) on a single word naming test.
PCC is a speech sound articulation test used to measure the number of correct consonant sounds produced compared to the number of consonant sounds attempted.
Time frame: Outcome will be determined from data gained from the participants through assessment on a single clinic visit following recruitment.
Presence of developmental and non-developmental error patterns in speech.
There are a variety of sound changes (error patterns) that feature in typical speech sound development. There are also patterns that are characteristic of atypical speech sound development. The speech samples gained from using the Diagnostic Evaluation of Articulation and Phonology (DEAP) speech assessment will be analysed by a qualified Speech and Language Therapist to identify atypical speech errors. These will then be quantified for use in the statistical analysis.
Time frame: Outcome will be determined from data gained from the participants through assessment on a single clinic visit following recruitment.
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