An interventional study of articulation therapy and phonologic treatment in Speech Sound Disorder, Phonology Disorder and Phonology Impairment, sponsored by University of Wyoming. Completed at 1 site in United States. Open to participants aged 4 Years to 8 Years, including healthy volunteers. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2020-06-18.
Sponsored by University of Wyoming · Not applicable, Interventional, and Treatment
Late-acquired sounds, such as /r/ are difficult to learn and many children experience persistent errors on these sounds. The purpose of the present study is to determine whether treating these sounds earlier in the child's life may result in better outcomes.
Late-acquired sounds, such as /r/ are difficult to learn and many children experience persistent errors on these sounds. However, these sounds are often treated later in a child's life because they are not expected to be fully acquired until quite late--age 7-8 for some sounds. This practice places treatment in a time of the child's development in which they struggle to learn new sounds.The purpose of the present study is to determine whether treating these sounds earlier in the child's life may result in better outcomes, and to examine treatment efficacy and efficiency for two methods of treatment.
46 studies on the registry are indexed under Speech Sound Disorder; 16 are open to participants now.
This study's enrollment of 16 is below the median of 40 across 39 interventional studies indexed under Speech Sound Disorder.
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Exclusionary Criteria:
Children will participate in an intervention based on traditional articulation approaches to speech therapy.
Behavioral: articulation therapy
Children will receive intervention that targets the conceptual representation of sounds.
Behavioral: phonologic treatment
children receive instruction in producing new sounds at the isolation, syllable and word level.
children receive instruction in producing new sounds at the word level
Treatment Efficacy: Number of correct productions of treated speech sounds in treatment words
Accurate Production of treatment sound at baseline and at posttest
Time frame: baseline until accuracy criterion is met; up to 18 weeks after final baseline session
Treatment Efficiency: Number of sessions required to meet accuracy criteria
Number of treatment sessions required to meet accuracy criteria (90% accuracy across three consecutive sessions or a maximum of 35 treatment sessions)
Time frame: baseline until accuracy criterion is met; up to 18 weeks after final baseline session
Session Length: Mean duration of sessions in minutes
Start and end time of session is recorded on scoresheet, then number of minutes for each session for each participant is found and the mean across all sessions is calculated.
Time frame: First treatment session until final treatment session. Final treatment session occurs when accuracy of treatment sound is met (90% accuracy across three consecutive sessions or a maximum of 35 treatment sessions)
Accuracy of production of untreated sounds measured on pretest and posttest probes
Some children may generalize their skills learned through treatment to sounds that were not treated in the trial.
Time frame: baseline and at posttest up to 18 weeks after final baseline session
Plan to share: No
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Ran from Jun 2018 to primary completion in Apr 2020, 22 months.
Of 23 interventional studies with no phase under Speech Sound Disorder, half reached primary completion within 57 months of starting (the median), counting those still running; a quarter within 16 and three quarters within 57. This study's 22 months is below that.
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