Status:

RECRUITING

Effect of Performance-specific Cleft Speech Intervention and Long-term Learning in Children With a Cleft Palate

Lead Sponsor:

University Ghent

Collaborating Sponsors:

Research Foundation Flanders

Conditions:

Cleft Palate Children

Speech Disorders in Children

Eligibility:

All Genders

4-12 years

Phase:

NA

Brief Summary

Speech therapy in children with a palate deals with two scientific challenges that will be addressed in this project. The first challenge is selecting the best speech approach for a child with a spec...

Detailed Description

Objective 1: To compare the (immediate) effect of three speech therapy approaches (i.e. a motor-phonetic approach, a phonological approach, and a combined phonetic-phonological approach) on the speec...

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion

  • Belgian Dutch-speaking children with a cleft palate with or without a cleft lip
  • Aged between 4 and 12 years
  • Presence of at least one compensatory speech error in their speech based on the perceptual assessment of one experienced speech-language pathologist

Exclusion

  • Children with syndromic clefts
  • Oronasal fistula
  • Velopharyngeal insufficiency
  • Hearing disabilities based on pure tone audiometry (\>25 dB HL)
  • Cognitive and/or related learning disabilities or neuromuscular disorders

Key Trial Info

Start Date :

October 1 2022

Trial Type :

INTERVENTIONAL

Allocation :

ESTIMATED

End Date :

September 30 2026

Estimated Enrollment :

135 Patients enrolled

Trial Details

Trial ID

NCT06105099

Start Date

October 1 2022

End Date

September 30 2026

Last Update

October 27 2023

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Department of Rehabilitation Sciences

Ghent, Belgium, 9000