Clinical trials: Language
Language Impairment in School-years
Evaluating Treatment Efficacy of Two Syntactic Treatment Procedures for Children With Specific Language Impairment (SLI): A Randomized Controlled Trial
Specific-language-impairment (SLI) is defined as a significant disorder in language development, which affects one's daily functioning, but not attributable to sensory, intellectual or neuropsychological deficit.
- Trial name
- NCT01765348
- Testing
- Syntax treatment via sentence-combining method, Syntax treatment managed by narrative-based treatment
- Where
- Hong Kong
- Volunteers
- 52 people
- Sponsor
- The University of Hong Kong
Persons With Frontal Lobe Damage With no Specific Language Disorder
Evaluation of Mental Flexibility Through Language Tests in Adolescents With Frontal Brain Damage and in Healthy Children in Ages 8-17
This study aims to shed light on the theoretical concept of mental flexibility and its manifestation in adolescents following frontal lobe damage, and to develop a test battery for young Hebrew speakers.
- Trial name
- NCT01696292
- Where
- Israel
- Volunteers
- 20 people
- Sponsor
- Sheba Medical Center
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
Language Acquisition
The Use of a Language Toolkit for Toddlers
To investigate whether young children with isolated expressive language delay benefit from early intervention with a simple language toolkit and brief instructions provided to their caregivers.
- Trial name
- NCT00926510
- Testing
- Language toolkit, Safety counseling
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 40 people
- Sponsor
- University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Autism
Joint Attention Intervention and Young Children With Autism
The purpose of this study is to investigate the effectiveness of an intervention aimed to increase joint attention in 2-4 year old children with autism. The study will be conducted in mainstream preschools in Norway.
- Trial name
- NCT00378157
- Testing
- Joint attention intervention
- Where
- Norway
- Volunteers
- 61 people
- Sponsor
- Ullevaal University Hospital
Condition 1. Children With ALL Are Still Alive and the Age of 18 Years of Age., Condition 2. Has Been Completed to Guide the Treatment Regimen Were in Remission.
The Related Factors With Resilience in Caregivers Whose Child With Leukemia
The purpose of this study was to explore caregivers stress, family functioning, social support and family resilience of families whose children had acute lymphoblastic leukemia.
- Conditions
- Condition 1. Children With ALL Are Still Alive and the Age of 18 Years of Age., Condition 2. Has Been Completed to Guide the Treatment Regimen Were in Remission., Condition 3. Caregiver Can or Taiwanese Language Communicator.
- Trial name
- NCT01249781
- Where
- Taiwan
- Volunteers
- 50 people
- Sponsor
- China Medical University Hospital
Rolandic Epilepsy, Apraxia
Scholar Performance and Praxis Assessment in Children With Rolandic Epilepsy
Rolandic Epilepsy is the most common form of childhood epilepsy. It is classified as idiopathic, age-related epilepsy syndrome with benign evolution.
- Trial name
- NCT01046760
- Testing
- Language Assessment
- Where
- Brazil
- Volunteers
- 20 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Campinas, Brazil
Child, Development
Language and Deglutition in Children
The first years of life are considered essential to child development, as there is greater brain growth and formation of more neural connections.
- Trial name
- LDC (NCT01191671)
- Where
- Brazil
- Volunteers
- 89 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Fortaleza University
Möbius Sequence
Impairments of Oral Language in Mobius Syndrome
The Möbius syndrome constitutes a congenital disorder classically caused by genetic and environmental factors. The clinical manifestations include lesion of the facial and abducens nerves associated with limb malformations…
- Trial name
- Mobius (NCT00856531)
- Sponsor
- Fortaleza University
Down Syndrome
Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) and Lexical Gain in Children With Down Syndrome
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.
- Trial name
- NCT00689988
- Testing
- speech-language therapy with AAC intervention
- Where
- Brazil
- Volunteers
- 5 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Sao Paulo
Brain Mapping, Deafness
Areas of Brain Responsible for Understanding American Sign Language
The human brain is made up of two halves called hemispheres. Each half of the brain is responsible for processing different kinds of information.
- Conditions
- Brain Mapping, Deafness, Healthy
- Trial name
- NCT00001782
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 30 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS)
Language Disorder, Healthy
Language Stimuli Screening in Children
This study will determine baseline language skills in children 4 to 8 years old. The data will be used to design studies using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to identify what areas of the brain in children are…
- Trial name
- NCT00016796
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 150 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS)
Language Delay, Developmental Language Disorders
Effectiveness of Early Parent-Based Language Intervention
The purpose of the study is to examine the effectiveness of a highly-structured parent-based language intervention group program for two-year-old children with language delay.
- Trial name
- NCT00625261
- Testing
- Heidelberg Parent-based Language Intervention HPLI
- Where
- Germany
- Volunteers
- 150 people
- Sponsor
- Heidelberg University
Developmental Language Disorders
Experimental Word Learning in Children With and Without Language Impairment
The purpose of this study is to compare the performances of normally developing children and children with Language Impairment (LI) in three different experimental settings designed to promote vocabulary acquisition.
- Trial name
- NCT00607334
- Testing
- Word-learning
- Where
- Brazil
- Volunteers
- 51 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Sao Paulo
Language Disorders
A Comparison of Language Intervention Programs
Brief Summary: Nearly 7% of elementary school children present with difficulties learning and using language. Unfortunately, language impairments are often long lasting and may have serious social, academic, and vocational…
- Trial name
- NCT00033150
- Testing
- Fast ForWord, Computer Assisted Language Intervention, Individual Language Intervention
- Where
- 2 sites in United States
- Volunteers
- 216 people
- Sponsor
- National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD)
Autism, Mental Retardation
MR Scanning of Very Young Children With Severe Developmental Disorders
The specific is to study the MR morphologic and spectroscopic brain correlates and predictors of development in children with severe developmental disorders (autistic spectrum disorders and/or mental retardation and/or language…
- Conditions
- Autism, Mental Retardation, Language Disorder
- Trial name
- NCT00156221
- Where
- Netherlands
- Sponsor
- UMC Utrecht
Developmental Disabilities, Language Development Disorders
Preventing Learning Problems in Young Children: A Public Health and Physician-Based Outreach
This study will evaluate a program to prevent learning problems in children. The program is an inexpensive public health outreach program designed for families living in poverty and is administered through pediatricians' offices…
- Trial name
- NCT00110292
- Testing
- Age-specific parenting newsletters and developmental toys, Parent-completed Ages & Stages Questionnaires, Clinic-based distribution of children's books
- Where
- 2 sites in United States
- Volunteers
- 600 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)