Clinical trials: Language Development
Developmental Language Disorder and Language Impairment, Specific Language Impairment
Retrieval-Based Word Learning in Developmental Language Disorder During Book Reading II
Children with developmental language disorder (DLD; also referred to as specific language impairment) experience a significant deficit in language ability that is longstanding and harmful to the children's academic, social, and…
- Conditions
- Developmental Language Disorder and Language Impairment, Specific Language Impairment, Language Development
- Trial name
- NCT07048392
- Testing
- Retrieval-based word learning: Repeated Spaced Retrieval condition, Retrieval-based word learning: Repeated Study condition
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 28 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Purdue University
Autism Spectrum Disorders
A Trial of the Drug Donepezil for Sleep Enhancement and Behavioral Change in Children With Autism
Background: Some children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) do not have normal sleep cycles. Some of these children spend very little time in the rapid eye movement (REM) stage of sleep.
- Trial name
- NCT01887132
- Testing
- Donepezil
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 5 people
- Sponsor
- National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)
Language Development Disorders, Down Syndrome
Strategies for Teaching Verbs
This study is designed to evaluate whether children with Down syndrome and children with typical development exhibit different levels of accuracy demonstrating novel verbs taught under three conditions: semantic cues (perform…
- Conditions
- Language Development Disorders, Down Syndrome, Child Language
- Trial name
- NCT03441685
- Testing
- Semantic cues (perform action), syntactic cues (sentence frame), or combined semantic and syntactic cues
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 44 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Stuttering, Developmental
Non-invasive Brain Stimulation in Adults Who Stutter
Research studies in stuttering have shown that activity patterns in certain brain areas differ in people who stutter compared to people who do not stutter when speaking.
- Trial name
- NCT03437512
- Testing
- Anodal tDCS, Fluency training
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 29 people
- Sponsor
- University of Michigan
Central Auditory Processing Disorder, Traumatic Brain Injury
Central Auditory Processing Disorders Associated With Blast Exposure
The incidence of central auditory dysfunction in war fighters who are exposed to high-explosive blasts while serving in combat have not been clearly determined.
- Conditions
- Central Auditory Processing Disorder, Traumatic Brain Injury, Hearing Loss
- Trial name
- NCT00554801
- Testing
- Audiological testing
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 84 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- VA Office of Research and Development
Language Delay, Language Development Disorders
Vocabulary Intervention for Late Talkers
Most studies regarding word learning have focused on understanding when and how infants learn words. At 24 months, typically developing infants know between 200 and 300 words and add new words to their vocabularies at a rapid…
- Trial name
- NCT03379818
- Testing
- Shape training intervention, Specific word training
- Where
- United Kingdom
- Volunteers
- 30 people
- Sponsor
- University of Birmingham
Autism Spectrum Disorder, Apraxia of Speech
Video Assisted Speech Technology to Enhance Motor Planning for Speech
Nearly 3.5 million Americans are diagnosed with Autistic Spectrum Disorder (ASD), a communication disorder that causes skill limitations in the areas of language acquisition, sensory integration, and behavior.
- Trial name
- VAST (NCT04764539)
- Testing
- Video Assisted Speech Therapy (VAST)
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 6 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- iTherapy, LLC
Autism
Autologous Cord Blood Stem Cells for Autism
Evaluate the efficacy of one infusion of stem cells from autologous umbilical cord blood in patients with autism over six months after infusion as measured by changes in expressive and receptive language.
- Trial name
- NCT01638819
- Testing
- Autologous Cord Blood Stem Cells
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 30 people
- Sponsor
- Sutter Health
Developmental Language Disorder, Specific Language Impairment
Retrieval-based Word Learning in Developmental Language Disorder: Adaptive Retrieval Schedule
Children with developmental language disorder (DLD; also referred to as specific language impairment) experience a significant deficit in language ability that is longstanding and harmful to the children's academic, social, and…
- Conditions
- Developmental Language Disorder, Specific Language Impairment, Language Development
- Trial name
- NCT06995014
- Testing
- Retrieval-based word learning: Standard retrieval practice schedule, Retrieval-based word learning: Adaptive retrieval practice schedule
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 7 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Purdue University
Language Development Disorders
Kindergarten Children Acquiring Words Through Storybook Reading
Children with Specific Language Impairment (SLI) are slower to learn new words than their peers, placing them at risk for academic failure.
- Trial name
- KAWStory (NCT03586479)
- Testing
- Interactive storybook reading
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 48 people
- Sponsor
- University of Kansas
Language Developmental Disorders
Working on Rapid Language Development in Toddlers
The goal of the study is to examine the effects of teaching parents to use language support strategies on language skills in toddlers with language delays.
- Trial name
- WORLD (NCT01975922)
- Testing
- Enhanced Milieu Teaching
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 97 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Vanderbilt University
Obesity, Infant, Language Development
Music and Child Health and Development
The goal of this clinical trial is to learn about the effects of a music enrichment program on the quality of parent child interactions, a child's motivation to eat, and a child's language environment in 9 to 24 month-old…
- Conditions
- Obesity, Infant, Language Development, Parent-Child Relations
- Trial name
- NCT05868811
- Testing
- Music Together, Play Group
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 18 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Children's Mercy Hospital Kansas City
Psychosis, Schizophrenia
CBTpro: Scaling up CBT for Psychosis Using Simulated Patients and Spoken Language Technologies
The primary objective of this grant is to develop and evaluate an Artificial Intelligence-based clinical training tool--CBTpro--to support high-quality skills training in CBT for psychosis (CBTp).
- Conditions
- Psychosis, Schizophrenia, Schizo Affective Disorder, Bipolar Disorder
- Trial name
- CBTpro (NCT05127837)
- Testing
- CBTpro
- Where
- 13 sites in United States
- Volunteers
- 601 people
- Sponsor
- University of Washington
Autistic Disorder, Autism
Mental Imagery Therapy for Autism (MITA) - an Early Intervention Computerized Language Training Program for Children With ASD
Mental Imagery Therapy for Autism (MITA) is a unique, early-intervention application for children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD).
- Conditions
- Autistic Disorder, Autism, ASD
- Trial name
- NCT02708290
- Testing
- MITA Prefrontal Synthesis exercises - each activity adapts to deliver the exercise that is at the exact level of difficulty appropriate for a child at any given point in time
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 6,454 people
- Sponsor
- ImagiRation, LLC
Developmental Language Disorder, Specific Language Impairment
Retrieval-Based Word Learning in Developmental Language Disorder: Verb Learning
Children with developmental language disorder (DLD; also referred to as specific language impairment) experience a significant deficit in language ability that is longstanding and harmful to the children's academic, social, and…
- Conditions
- Developmental Language Disorder, Specific Language Impairment, Language Development
- Trial name
- NCT06001866
- Testing
- Retrieval-based verb learning: Repeated Spaced Retrieval condition, Retrieval-based verb learning: Repeated Study condition
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 31 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Purdue University
Language Development, Behavior, Child
Literacy Promotion for Latinos Study
This study tests the extent to which tailored outreach text messages that provide a cue to action and an intervention that enhances access to poverty-reducing resources, in combination with standard primary care literacy…
- Conditions
- Language Development, Behavior, Child, Parenting, Literacy
- Trial name
- NCT04609553
- Testing
- Usual care including ROR, Text messages, Connection to community resources
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 662 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Language Development Disorders, Speech Sound Disorder
Manipulating Linguistic Complexity to Improve Child Language Treatment Outcomes
Phonological disorder (PD) and specific language impairment (SLI) directly impact a child's ability to communicate and are among the most prevalent developmental disorders.
- Trial name
- NCT03977701
- Testing
- Phonological treatment, Morpheme treatment
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 41 people
- Sponsor
- San Diego State University
Developmental Language Disorder, Specific Language Impairment
Retrieval-Based Word Learning in Developmental Language Disorder During Book Reading
Children with developmental language disorder (DLD; also referred to as specific language impairment) experience a significant deficit in language ability that is longstanding and harmful to the children's academic, social, and…
- Conditions
- Developmental Language Disorder, Specific Language Impairment, Language Development
- Trial name
- NCT06026124
- Testing
- Retrieval-based word learning: Repeated Spaced Retrieval condition, Retrieval-based word learning: Repeated Study condition
- Where
- 2 sites in United States
- Volunteers
- 27 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Purdue University
Dyslexia, Developmental
Neural Mechanisms of Successful Intervention in Children With Dyslexia
Dyslexia, an impairment in accurate or fluent word recognition, is the most common learning disability affecting roughly ten percent of children.
- Trial name
- NCT04323488
- Testing
- Lindamood-Bell Seeing Stars
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 90 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Stanford University
Developmental Language Disorder
Maximizing Outcomes for Preschoolers With Developmental Language Disorders
The objective of the proposed study is to evaluate the efficacy of the Enhanced Milieu Teaching-Sentence Focus (EMT-SF) intervention, implemented by caregivers and interventionists, relative to a control condition enrolling 108…
- Trial name
- NCT03782493
- Testing
- the Enhanced Milieu Teaching-Sentence Focus
- Where
- 2 sites in United States
- Volunteers
- 108 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Northwestern University