Status:
TERMINATED
Improving STEM Outcomes for Young Children With Language Learning Disabilities
Lead Sponsor:
Father Flanagan's Boys' Home
Collaborating Sponsors:
University of Delaware
University of Iowa
Conditions:
Specific Language Impairment
Eligibility:
All Genders
4-7 years
Phase:
NA
Brief Summary
The sophisticated language of science can be a barrier to Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) learning, especially for children who have specific language impairment (SLI). The purpose o...
Detailed Description
In this study the investigators focus on a subset of at-risk students who find the language of science to be a barrier to the learning of science. These are the nearly 3 million children in the U.S. w...
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion
- Age between 4 and 7 years
- Not yet begun first grade
- Speaks English as their primary language
- Has SLI confirmed by 1) a standard score of 94 or lower on the Structured Photographic Expressive Language Test, 3rd edition (SPELT-III, Dawson, Stout, \& Eyer, 2003) OR below a scaled score of 7 on the Diagnostic Evaluation of Language Variance™-Norm Referenced (DELV-NR, Seymour, Roeper, \& de Villiers, 2005) syntax subtest; AND 2) performing below age-relevant cutoffs on the Dollaghan and Campbell (1998) Nonword Repetition Task OR enrollment on a clinical caseload.
- Nonverbal matrices t score of 35 or higher on the Developmental Abilities Scale
- Passes a pure-tone audiometric screening administered according to the standards of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA, 1997)
- Can produce simple sentences that contain a subject and a verb.
- Performs with less than 40% accuracy on expressive probes of complement clauses prior to study onset
- Performs with less than 40% accuracy on vocabulary definition probes prior to study onset
Exclusion
- Other diagnosed neurodevelopmental disorders (e.g., autism, Down syndrome) via parent report or significant sensory or motor impairments (e.g., severe vision impairment uncorrectable by glasses)
- Exposure to a language other than English at home or school more than 20% of the time.
Key Trial Info
Start Date :
November 3 2017
Trial Type :
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation :
ACTUAL
End Date :
August 30 2020
Estimated Enrollment :
36 Patients enrolled
Trial Details
Trial ID
NCT03438760
Start Date
November 3 2017
End Date
August 30 2020
Last Update
September 14 2020
Active Locations (1)
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University of Delaware
Newark, Delaware, United States, 19716