Status:
RECRUITING
Visual-acoustic Intervention With Service Delivery In-person and Via Telepractice Trial
Lead Sponsor:
New York University
Collaborating Sponsors:
Syracuse University
Montclair State University
Conditions:
Speech Sound Disorder
Eligibility:
FEMALE
9-17 years
Phase:
PHASE2
Brief Summary
Children with speech sound disorder show diminished intelligibility in spoken communication and may thus be perceived as less capable than peers, with negative consequences for both socioemotional and...
Detailed Description
This study aims to test the working hypothesis that biofeedback treatment delivery via telepractice will not be associated with a reduction in efficacy that exceeds a maximum acceptable value determin...
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion
- Must be between 9;0 and 17;11 (years;months) old at the time of enrollment.
- Must speak English as the dominant or equally dominant language
- Must have begun learning English by age 3, per parent report.
- Must hear a rhotic dialect of English from at least one speaker in the home if the home language is English.
- Must pass a pure-tone hearing screening.
- Must pass a brief examination of oral structure and function.
- Must exhibit less than thirty percent accuracy, based on trained listener ratings, on a probe list eliciting /r/ in various phonetic contexts at the word level.
- Must demonstrate age-appropriate receptive and expressive language abilities on the Clinical Evaluation of Language Fundamentals-5 (CELF-5).
- Must have access to a laptop or desktop computer for study sessions in the event of randomization to the telepractice condition.
- Must have home wifi sufficient to support video calls in the event of randomization to the telepractice condition.
Exclusion
- Must not exhibit voice or fluency disorder of a severity judged likely to interfere with the ability to participate in study activities.
- Must not currently have orthodontia that crosses the palate and cannot be removed.
- Must not have history of permanent hearing loss.
- Must not have an existing diagnosis of developmental disability such as cerebral palsy or Down Syndrome.
- Must not have history of major brain injury, surgery, or stroke in the past year.
- Must not have epilepsy with active seizure incidents with in the past 6 months.
- Must not show clinically significant signs of apraxia of speech or dysarthria.
Key Trial Info
Start Date :
July 1 2024
Trial Type :
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation :
ESTIMATED
End Date :
December 31 2028
Estimated Enrollment :
76 Patients enrolled
Trial Details
Trial ID
NCT06517225
Start Date
July 1 2024
End Date
December 31 2028
Last Update
June 25 2025
Active Locations (3)
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1
Montclair State University
Bloomfield, New Jersey, United States, 07003
2
New York University
New York, New York, United States, 10012
3
Syracuse University
Syracuse, New York, United States, 13244