Status:

COMPLETED

Visual Acoustic Biofeedback for RSE Via Telepractice

Lead Sponsor:

Montclair State University

Collaborating Sponsors:

National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD)

New York University

Conditions:

Speech Sound Disorder

Eligibility:

All Genders

9-15 years

Phase:

PHASE2

Brief Summary

This research will meet a public health need by evaluating the efficacy of speech intervention supplemented with real-time visual-acoustic biofeedback when delivered using remote technologies.

Detailed Description

In a crossover design, participants will be randomly assigned to receive 10 weeks/20 sessions of visual-acoustic biofeedback treatment via telepractice followed by a 10-week period of no treatment, or...

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion

  • Must be between 9;0 and 15;11 years of age at the time of enrollment.
  • Must speak English as the dominant language (i.e., must have begun learning English by age 2, per parent report).
  • Must speak a rhotic dialect of English.
  • Must pass a pure-tone hearing screening at 20dB hearing level.
  • Must pass a brief examination of oral structure and function.
  • Must exhibit less than 30% accuracy, based on consensus across 2 trained listeners, on a probe list eliciting rhotics in various phonetic contexts at the word level.
  • Must exhibit no more than 3 sounds other than /r/ in error on the Goldman-Fristoe Test of Articulation-3 (GFTA-3).

Exclusion

  • Must not receive a T score more than 1.3 SD below the mean on the Wechsler Abbreviated Scale of Intelligence-2 (WASI-2) Matrix Reasoning
  • Must not receive a scaled score of 7 or higher on the Recalling Sentences and Formulated Sentences subtests of the Clinical Evaluation of Language Fundamentals-5 (CELF-5).
  • Must not have an existing diagnosis of developmental disability or major neurobehavioral syndrome such as cerebral palsy, Down Syndrome, or Autism Spectrum Disorder

Key Trial Info

Start Date :

January 15 2022

Trial Type :

INTERVENTIONAL

Allocation :

ACTUAL

End Date :

April 15 2024

Estimated Enrollment :

40 Patients enrolled

Trial Details

Trial ID

NCT04858022

Start Date

January 15 2022

End Date

April 15 2024

Last Update

July 29 2024

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Montclair State University

Upper Montclair, New Jersey, United States, 07403