Clinical trials: Reading Comprehension
Developmental Language Disorder and Language Impairment
Recasting or Book Reading by Parents or Clinicians
Developmental Language Disorder (DLD) affects approximately seven percent of the population and is characterized by grammatical deficits that cascade into lifelong academic challenges and under-employment.
- Trial name
- NCT05099328
- Testing
- Recast Therapy, Syntax Stories
- Where
- 2 sites in United States
- Volunteers
- 137 people
- Sponsor
- University of Delaware
Dyslexia
Working Memory Training for Children With Dyslexia
The main aim of this interventional study is to investigate whether the effects of computerized working memory training improves reading abilities for children, i.e. ages 9 - 16 years, diagnosed with dyslexia.
- Trial name
- NCT02429739
- Testing
- Working memory Training
- Where
- Norway
- Volunteers
- 32 people
- Sponsor
- Sorlandet Hospital HF
Reading Problem
Knowledge Accessibility and Availability in Forming Knowledge-to-Text Inferences Among Middle Grade Readers
Recent adolescent-based research shows that inference making improves across grades 6-12, uniquely accounts for variance in sentence- and passage-level comprehension, and that individual differences in inference making relate in…
- Trial name
- BVU-R15 (NCT03782012)
- Testing
- Supported
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 241 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Buena Vista University
Language Development
Supporting Children's School Readiness.
The aim of this project is to test whether training parents to ask their children 'inference- eliciting' questions during book reading is effective in promoting story comprehension for 4-year-olds from a range of socio-economic…
- Trial name
- NCT02854462
- Testing
- Language comprehension intervention, Counting intervention
- Where
- United Kingdom
- Volunteers
- 100 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Sheffield
Accuracy in Understanding the Core Content of English Medical Literature
A Study on the Effect of Medical Students' Literature Reading Patterns on Cognitive Load and Academic Writing Ability
Compare the effects of three English medical literature reading modes (original text reading, bilingual comparison, full translation) on medical students' accuracy in literature comprehension, perceived cognitive load, mastery of…
- Trial name
- NCT07460258
- Where
- 3 sites in China
- Volunteers
- 160 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Zhongnan Hospital
Reading Comprehension
"Reading Subtitles Skills in the Elementary School"
Theme: The reading of fixed texts in school are widely known, however it is not known how they read texts furniture and what skills are required for this type of reading.
- Trial name
- NCT01012986
- Testing
- Assessment of reading skills
- Where
- 2 sites in Brazil
- Volunteers
- 60 people
- Sponsor
- University of Sao Paulo
Autism Spectrum Disorder
More and Less Social Comprehension
The goal of this early Phase 1 clinical trial is to assess if the social content of a story impacts autistic children's listening comprehension of stories.
- Trial name
- MLSC (NCT06116552)
- Testing
- More Social Stories, Less Social Stories
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 50 people
- Sponsor
- University of Kansas Medical Center
Reading Disability, Reading Problem
The Role of Knowledge Retrieval in Inference-making
This project will (a) examine the relationship between knowledge retrieval and inferencing; (b) determine the effectiveness of an intervention that improves knowledge retrieval and inferencing among struggling readers; and (c)…
- Trial name
- NCT05692973
- Testing
- Role of Knowledge Retrieval, Inference Intervention
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 316 people
- Sponsor
- William Jewell College
Language Disorders in Children
Let's Know!2: Language-focused Intervention for Children at Risk of Comprehension Difficulties
In the proposed project, the investigators will conduct a multisite randomized controlled trial (RCT) to determine the efficacy of Let's Know!2, a small-group, language focused comprehension intervention, on children's lower- and…
- Trial name
- LK!2 (NCT05133479)
- Testing
- Let's Know! small-group or TierL 2 Intervention
- Where
- 2 sites in United States
- Volunteers
- 241 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- MGH Institute of Health Professions
Developmental Dyslexia, Reading Problem
Personalization of Visual Characters and Text-to-Speech (TTS) to Support Learning in Students With Reading Difficulties
Previous research has shown the importance of font type, size and spacing to facilitate text reading in dyslexia. A special automatized procedure was designed to select the most favorable parameters for both text visualization…
- Trial name
- NCT06947512
- Testing
- Seleggo Test
- Where
- 3 sites in Italy
- Volunteers
- 90 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- IRCCS Eugenio Medea