An interventional study of Online enhancement training in Learning Disorder, sponsored by IRCCS Burlo Garofolo. Completed at 1 site in Italy. Open to participants aged 7 Years to 8 Years. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2023-04-07.
Sponsored by IRCCS Burlo Garofolo · Not applicable, Interventional, and Diagnostic
One of the problems faced by health services that deals with the diagnosis and treatment of Specific Learning Disorders (SLD), like Dyslexia, Dysgraphia, Dysorthography and Dyscalculia, is the long waiting lists for first visits to possible confirm the diagnosis. One of the reasons explaining the long waiting times is that the school refers a large number of children to the hospital services who do not actually have SLD but a simple school difficulty. These two are very different conditions:
Resistance to enhancement intervention is precisely one of the criteria that is still used to distinguish a school difficulty from a SLD: students with SLD would be those who show resistance to specific educational interventions. This criterion is based on the assumption that SLD has a precise neurofunctional basis in contrast to school difficulties. These are a transitional condition, which can be modified by didactic adaptations and enhancement activities (Law 170/2010; regional resolution 933/2014 FVG).
The application of enhancement tools in the school environment would therefore make it possible to distinguish, on the basis of the response, subjects with simple school difficulties from those with suspected SLD and, therefore, to report just those one, to the health services for diagnostic confirmation, contributing to the reduction of the workload of the hospital services and the reduction of waiting lists. These results are very important for children with SLD who could be identified and treated in an early and timely manner. The aim of this project is to apply an online screening and further school enhancement process using the "InTempo software" to distinguish children with SLD from those with school difficulties, thus also obtaining data on the real incidence of SLD and school difficulties in The Friuli Venezia Giulia Region.
24 studies on the registry are indexed under Specific Learning Disorder; 4 are open to participants now.
This study's enrollment of 1,548 is above the median of 153 across 16 interventional studies indexed under Specific Learning Disorder.
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Compared within Specific Learning Disorder, this study's primary condition as ClinicalTrials.gg classifies it; the registry's first condition term is Learning Disabilities. The counts are of registry records indexed under each term, refreshed daily. How we classify →
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Exclusion Criteria:
Children positive to the online test "InTempo", which includes standardized and scientifically validated tests in the following areas: Metaphonology, Reading and Writing
Other: Online enhancement training
Online enhancement training lasting 3 months, using the "InTempo" app system (Gea-Metaphonology-Athena-reading/Ermes-writing) three times a week for twenty minutes. The training will include: Metaphonological Enhancement; Reading Enhancement; Writing Enhancement.
Prevalence of SLD
The first screening test and the subsequent enhancement training for positive will be carried out on-line in school children aged 7-8 years. Children without improvement after enhancement training (second screening test) will be considered positive (presence of SLD) and sent to the health services for a specific diagnostic evaluation.
Time frame: 6 months
To evaluate the prevalence of school difficulties
Defined by positivity at the first screening test and by negativity at the second, carried out after the enhancement intervention
Time frame: 6 months
To compare the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire scores recorded during the study
The Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (italian version) will be administered to parents of the children involved in the study pre and post intervention to evaluate emotional and behavioural characteristics of the children and to assess how they change during the enhancement process.
Time frame: 6 months
Plan to share: Undecided
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