Clinical trials: Specific Language Impairment, open to volunteers
Developmental Language Disorder
Training Caregivers to Teach Vocabulary to Children With Language Impairment
The purpose of this study is to determine whether Spanish-speaking caregivers can learn to teach science vocabulary to their children with the use and educational app and a short training video with target words.
- Trial name
- DLD (NCT07519629)
- Testing
- Robust vocabulary intervention
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 64 people
- Sponsor
- Northern Arizona University
Developmental Language Disorder
Computer-Assisted Vocabulary Intervention for Spanish-English Bilingual Children With Developmental Language Disorder
This study will examine whether computer-assisted vocabulary instruction in Spanish and English helps young bilingual children with developmental language disorder learn and use vocabulary.
- Trial name
- CABVI (NCT07915115)
- Testing
- Bilingual computer-assisted vocabulary intervention (CABVI), English-only computer-assisted vocabulary intervention (CABVI), Usual English-language school services
- Volunteers
- 135 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Texas Christian University
Developmental Language Disorder
MOLECULAR BASIS OF LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT AND ASSOCIATED DISORDERS
Developmental Language Disorder (DLD) refers to children who present with language difficulties that are not due to a known biomedical condition or associated with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) or intellectual disability.
- Trial name
- TSLO (NCT06660108)
- Testing
- blood draw
- Where
- 3 sites in France
- Volunteers
- 50 people
- Sponsor
- Institut National de la Santé Et de la Recherche Médicale, France
Dyslexia
Reading and Stuttering
Dyslexia is a common neurodevelopmental condition, which manifests itself in the form of reading difficulties and occurs in 7-10% of the population (Peterson \& Pennington, 2012).
- Trial name
- NCT06836115
- Volunteers
- 200 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Wafaa Helmy Abdelhakeem
Developmental Language Disorder
Contextual Word Learning in Children With Developmental Language Disorder
Many children have developmental language disorder, which makes it difficulty to learn language, including vocabulary, and results in ongoing academic and social difficulties.
- Trial name
- NCT05988190
- Testing
- Contextual Word Learning Intervention
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 100 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Binghamton University
Dyslexia
Evaluation of Speech Rhythm Training in Dyslexic Readers Aged 7 to 9 Years
Studies of dyslexia have shown altered oscillatory activity in the low gamma band (~25-35 Hz) in the left auditory cortex. Neural oscillations around 30 Hz constitute the basic sampling rate of speech, from which the ability to…
- Trial name
- RnDys (NCT05996497)
- Testing
- behavioral measures, Electrophysiological measures, Training 1
- Where
- France
- Volunteers
- 160 people
- Sponsor
- Institut Pasteur
Dyslexia
Validating a Neurocognitive Remediation Model for Visual-Attentional Pathway in Chinese Developmental Dyslexia
Developmental dyslexia is a common and serious specific learning disability affecting up to one in eight children in Hong Kong, with profound consequences for academic success and personal well-being.
- Trial name
- NCT07707700
- Testing
- Action video game intervention group, Active Control (Non-Action Video Game) Group
- Where
- Hong Kong
- Volunteers
- 76 people
- Sponsor
- The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Developmental Language Disorder
Sentence Prediction in Developmental Language Disorder
Millions of children - 7-12% of the school-age population - have developmental language disorder (DLD), a disorder that affects language learning, comprehension, and use.
- Trial name
- NCT07510854
- Testing
- Thematic role, Sentence complexity
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 80 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Father Flanagan's Boys' Home
Developmental Dyslexia, Developmental Language Disorder
Dynamic Assessment of the Risk for Language and Reading Disorders in Monolingual and Multilingual Children
The project represents the completion of a part of the recently concluded European project MultiMind, in which a computer platform called MuLiMi was developed and validated.
- Trial name
- NCT06937255
- Testing
- computerized Dynamic Assessment
- Where
- Italy
- Volunteers
- 150 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- IRCCS Eugenio Medea
Reading Disability
Executive Function in Early Childhood
Despite the fact that a substantial number of school age children struggle with both reading and math acquisition, the brain mechanisms of the overlapping aspects of reading and math skills, thought in part to be linked via…
- Trial name
- NCT03713125
- Testing
- Reading Tutoring
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 260 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Vanderbilt University
Stroke, Dyslexia, Acquired
Neurofeedback Intervention for Reading Deficits in Subacute Stroke
The overall goal of this project is to advance a biologically-based approach to treatment of reading disorders after stroke, which will expand the limits of cognitive rehabilitation.
- Trial name
- ReadingNFB (NCT04875936)
- Testing
- Motor Imagery and Real-Time fMRI Neurofeedback
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 28 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Kessler Foundation
Developmental Language Disorder
Language Outcomes, Mechanisms, and Trajectories in Adults With and Without Developmental Language Disorder
The investigators' overall objective is to characterize the long-term outcomes of Developmental Language Disorder (DLD) in adulthood and to identify specific cognitive mechanisms mediating these outcomes.
- Trial name
- NCT06898671
- Testing
- Eye-Tracking in Visual World Paradigm
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 400 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Iowa
Developmental Language Disorder, Language Delay
Using Neuroimaging and Behavioral Assessments to Understand Late Talking
Late talkers (LT), representing 10-20% of children under 3, demonstrate hallmark syntax and vocabulary deficits similar to preschoolers with developmental language disorder.
- Conditions
- Developmental Language Disorder, Language Delay, Language Development
- Trial name
- NCT06156865
- Testing
- Intervention to address late talking
- Where
- 2 sites in Canada
- Volunteers
- 45 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Toronto
Developmental Language Disorder
Learning in Children With Developmental Language Disorder
Developmental language disorder (DLD) is a condition that affects children's ability to learn and use language. These difficulties can affect communication, learning, and participation in everyday activities.
- Trial name
- NCT07899671
- Testing
- priming
- Volunteers
- 160 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- MGH Institute of Health Professions
Developmental Dyslexia
Brain Stimulation With Combined Reading and Motor Training for Children With Dyslexia
This study examines whether combining non-invasive brain stimulation (tDCS) with an integrated reading-and-motor training program improves reading and phonological processing in 9-year-old boys with developmental dyslexia.
- Trial name
- NCT07781761
- Testing
- Active transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS), Phonological awareness training, Non-targeted fine motor training
- Where
- Iran
- Volunteers
- 160 people
- Sponsor
- Shahid Beheshti University
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
Developmental Language Disorders
Treating Passive Structure Knowledge Deficits in School-Age Children With Developmental Language Disorder
The goal of this project is to compare the relative effectiveness of two novel treatments to improve the knowledge of the passive sentence structure of school-age (8-11-year-old) children with developmental language disorder…
- Trial name
- DLDTreatment (NCT06932016)
- Testing
- Grammar Treatment
- Where
- 4 sites in United States
- Volunteers
- 150 people
- Sponsor
- Ohio University
Logopenic Progressive Aphasia, Primary Progressive Aphasia
Targeting Language-specific and Executive-control Networks With Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation in Logopenic Variant PPA
AD afflicts over 5.5. million Americans and is one of the most expensive diseases worldwide. In AD the variant in which language functions are most affected are referred to as 'logopenic variant Primary Progressive Aphasia'…
- Trial name
- NCT03887481
- Testing
- High-definition active tDCS (HD-tDCS) + "Repeat After Me" (RAM) Treatment
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 60 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Johns Hopkins University
Developmental Language Disorders
Treating Complex Grammar Knowledge Deficits in School-Age Children With Developmental Language Disorder
The goal of this project is to compare the relative effectiveness of two novel treatments to improve the complex grammar knowledge of school-age (8-11-year-old) children with developmental language disorder (DLD).
- Trial name
- DLD Treatment (NCT06911138)
- Testing
- Behavorial
- Where
- 4 sites in United States
- Volunteers
- 150 people
- Sponsor
- Ohio University
Stroke, Aphasia
Combined Exercise and Targeted Therapy for Post-Stroke Reading Deficits
The goal of the proposed project is to test the effectiveness of a novel hybrid approach to treatment of reading disorders after stroke, in which exercise training will be used in combination with a targeted reading treatment.
- Conditions
- Stroke, Aphasia, Reading Disorder
- Trial name
- NCT06213272
- Testing
- Phono-Motor Therapy, Aerobic Exercise Training (AET), Stretching
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 70 people
- Sponsor
- Kessler Foundation