Clinical trials: Reading Comprehension
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
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
Health Literacy
Patient Understanding of Handouts at Different Reading Levels
The goal of this randomized clinical trial is to learn if participants are better able to understand medical handouts written at below a sixth grade reading level compared to those written at above a sixth grade reading level.
- Trial name
- NCT06736808
- Testing
- Handout Written at Below a Sixth Grade Reading Level, Handout Written at Above a Sixth Grade Reading Level
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 156 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
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
Reading Comprehension
The Effect of Washback on Reading Comprehension
Testing and teaching are completely interrelated in education process; using various kinds of tests teachers are able to anticipate about the strong and weak points of learning in students, their progress and their…
- Trial name
- NCT01642316
- Testing
- washback, routin intervention
- Volunteers
- 130 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Mashhad University of Medical Sciences
Informed Consent, Gastrointestinal Endoscopy
Informed Consent in Endoscopy: Read, Understood or Merely Signed?
Informed consent form is a legal document that, ethically, should be obtained before any endoscopic procedure is performed. The main purpose of this research study is to assess the readability, comprehensibility and applicability…
- Trial name
- NCT05414435
- Testing
- Reading of informed consent form
- Where
- Portugal
- Volunteers
- 232 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Centro Hospitalar Tondela-Viseu
Reading Disability
Noninvasive Brain Stimulation to Enhance Reading Comprehension Ability in Adults
The goal of this project is to address the urgent need for effective, scalable adult literacy interventions by integrating breakthroughs in two separate fields: 1.) the brain network science of resilience to reading disorders and…
- Trial name
- NCT05523505
- Testing
- RLN real non-invasive brain stimulation intervention, RLN and CCN real non-invasive brain stimulation intervention
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 100 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Vanderbilt University
Healthy Young Adults, Accommodation Disorder
Study in Young Adults to Understand How Glasses With a Small Reading Addition Affect Focusing and Eye Coordination During Vision Tasks
This clinical study aims to understand how glasses with a small reading addition affect the way the eyes focus and work together in young adults with normal near vision.
- Trial name
- BIPBIP (NCT07859917)
- Testing
- Eye exam, Questionnaires, Washout lenses
- Where
- United Kingdom
- Volunteers
- 96 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Essilor International
C9ORF72 Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS)
Understanding Clinical Phenotype and Collecting Biomarker Samples in C9ORF72 ALS
This research study is being performed to better understand a specific form of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) caused by a mutation (or abnormality) of the C9ORF72 gene.
- Trial name
- NCT02686268
- Where
- 8 sites in United States, Netherlands
- Volunteers
- 128 people
- Sponsor
- Washington University School of Medicine
Aphasia
Effect of Music on Reading Comprehension in Patients With Aphasia
The purpose of this investigation is to examine the evidence on emotion, language, and music, and propose a first step, in the form of a single-subject research design, to determine the most effective and efficient method for…
- Trial name
- NCT03600987
- Testing
- Simultaneous music and reading lyrics, Priming with music, Control
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 4 people
- Sponsor
- Carilion Clinic
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
Aphasia, Stroke
Brain-based Understanding of Individual Language Differences After Stroke
Strokes often cause a loss of communication ability, referred to as aphasia, as well as cognitive difficulties. Each stroke survivor has a unique pattern of strengths and weaknesses in communication and cognition, and a unique…
- Conditions
- Aphasia, Stroke, Alexia
- Trial name
- BUILD (NCT04991519)
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 400 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Georgetown University
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
Aphasia
Strategies to Accommodate Reading (STAR)
People with aphasia often understand spoken utterances better than written sentences. They also benefit from having content appear in multiple rather than single modalities.
- Trial name
- STAR (NCT03312270)
- Testing
- Multimodality information comprehension
- Where
- 2 sites in United States
- Volunteers
- 152 people
- Sponsor
- Miami University
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
Parents
Parents Reading Comprehension of Their Child's Post-Operative Medicine Fact Sheets
The objective of this study is to test legal guardians reading comprehension of their child's post-operative medication administration using three different versions of written medication information (standard fact sheets…
- Trial name
- NCT00639470
- Testing
- easy to read fact sheets
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 23 people
- Sponsor
- State University of New York - Upstate Medical University
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
Aphasia
Effect of Music on Reading Comprehension for Patients With Aphasia
This investigation uses a single-subject, adapted alternating research design to compare two different experimental conditions using music with lyrics combined with visual stimulation of the written lyrics, to extend the…
- Trial name
- EMRA1 (NCT02875938)
- Testing
- Simultaneous music and reading lyrics, Priming with music, Control
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 1 people
- Sponsor
- Carilion Clinic
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
Pathologically Confirmed Differentiated Thyroid Carcinoma, All Patients Are in the Initial Treatment Phase
The Effect of a Psychosomatic Symptom Intervention Program on the Primary Treatment of Differentiated Thyroid Cancer
The psychosomatic symptoms of patients with differentiated thyroid cancer (DTC) during the initial treatment phase need to be improved.
- Conditions
- Pathologically Confirmed Differentiated Thyroid Carcinoma, All Patients Are in the Initial Treatment Phase, Normal Cognitive and Communicative Abilities, Capable of Reading and Understanding Questionnaires in Chinese, Ability to Use a Smartphone
- Trial name
- NCT06422702
- Testing
- Psychosomatic Symptoms Intervention, Extended supportive care
- Where
- China
- Volunteers
- 84 people
- Sponsor
- Harbin Medical University