Clinical trials: Clinical Communication
Problem Behavior, Self-injury
Resurgence as Choice: Basic and Clinical Studies
Background: Functional communication training (FCT) is a commonly used intervention for teaching appropriate communication skills to children with intellectual disabilities who exhibit severe destructive behavior.
- Conditions
- Problem Behavior, Self-injury, Communication
- Trial name
- NCT03423940
- Testing
- Functional communication training
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 17 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Non-verbal Learning Disorder, Autism Spectrum Disorder
Natural Treatments for the Management of Emotional Dysregulation in Youth With Non-verbal Learning Disability (NVLD) and/or Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD)
This study consists of a 6-week, open-label, randomized clinical trial study to compare efficacy and tolerability of the natural treatments omega-3 fatty acids, inositol, and N-acetylcysteine (NAC) in the treatment of mood…
- Conditions
- Non-verbal Learning Disorder, Autism Spectrum Disorder, Autism
- Trial name
- NCT03757585
- Testing
- Open-label Treatment with Omega-3 Fatty Acids + Inositol, Open-label Treatment with N-acetylcysteine
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 54 people
- Sponsor
- Massachusetts General Hospital
Colic
An Intervention to Decrease Infant Crying
This is a study looking at the Happiest Baby on the Block technique. The investigators hypothesized that infants of mothers given a 30 minute videotape demonstrating the Happiest Baby on the Block technique would fuss/cry less…
- Trial name
- NCT00796523
- Testing
- Happiest Baby videotape, control videotape
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 51 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Riverside Methodist Hospital
Language Disorder
Efficacy of AMALS in Treating Language Impairment in Children
The goal of this proposal is to examine the efficacy of a manualized treatment intervention, AMALS: Addressing Multiple Aspects of Language Simultaneously, which is designed to remediate semantic, morphological, and syntactic…
- Trial name
- AMALS (NCT00840060)
- Testing
- AMALS, DTA
- Where
- 3 sites in United States
- Volunteers
- 40 people
- Sponsor
- Lamar University
Learning Disability
Investigating the Clinical and Cost Effectiveness of Lycra Splinting
People with learning disabilities (LDs) experience high levels of health problems, including cerebral palsy, other problems associated with posture, movement and function, and injury (falls are the commonest cause of injury in…
- Trial name
- NCT02345512
- Testing
- Lycra Splinting Garment
- Where
- United Kingdom
- Volunteers
- 11 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Glasgow Caledonian University
Asthma in Children, Humans
Interventions To Help Asthma Clinical Adherence
To conduct a pilot test to estimate the effect of a novel reminder system in improving daily asthma controller medication adherence rates in children with monolingual Spanish-speaking guardians who have limited English…
- Conditions
- Asthma in Children, Humans, Hispanic Americans, Child
- Trial name
- ITHACA (NCT02999789)
- Testing
- SmartInhaler with reminder function turned on, SmartInhaler
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 13 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of California, San Francisco
Dementia, Alzheimer Disease
Digital Interventions in Neuro-Rehabilitation: Gotcha!
Aims and background Everyone forgets the names of people they should know at times. Having dementia makes this problem worse. People with dementia have told expressed they forget the names of people they care about and this can…
- Conditions
- Dementia, Alzheimer Disease, Anomia
- Trial name
- NCT04570215
- Testing
- Gotcha! Therapy application, Gotcha Therapy application: Maintenance
- Where
- United Kingdom
- Volunteers
- 48 people
- Sponsor
- University College, London
Cancer
Building Evidence for Effective Palliative/End of Life Care for Teens With Cancer
To test the efficacy of FACE-TC on key outcomes, the investigators propose using an intent-to-treat, longitudinal, prospective, multi-site, randomized controlled trial (RCT) design.
- Trial name
- FACE-TC (NCT02693665)
- Testing
- FAmily CEntered Advance Care Planning for Teens with Cancer
- Where
- 4 sites in United States
- Volunteers
- 260 people
- Sponsor
- Maureen Lyon
Encephalopathy, Birth Defect
Clinical Utility of Pediatric Whole Exome Sequencing
The investigator aims to examine the clinical utility of WES, including assessment of a variety of clinical outcomes in undiagnosed pediatric cases.
- Conditions
- Encephalopathy, Birth Defect, Intellectual Disability, Multiple Congenital Anomaly
- Trial name
- NCT03525431
- Testing
- Whole Exome Sequencing
- Where
- 4 sites in United States
- Volunteers
- 529 people
- Sponsor
- University of California, San Francisco