Status:
RECRUITING
Treatment for /s/ Production Errors in Children With Speech Sound Errors
Lead Sponsor:
Syracuse University
Conditions:
Speech Sound Disorder
Eligibility:
All Genders
7-11 years
Phase:
NA
Brief Summary
We want to learn about a new way to help people make the /s/ sound, like in the word "snake." We will be studying a way to teach the /s/ sound that uses very short speech sessions. This study will als...
Detailed Description
All sessions (including testing and treatment sessions) will occur over a HIPAA-compliant Zoom account that requires a password for each session. Prior to the first Zoom visit, parents of potential p...
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion
- Age: Participants must be between the ages of 7;0 and 11;11.
- /s/ Errors: Participants must experience difficulty on /s/.
- English Language Status: Participants must speak English as a dominant language and must have begun learning English before age 3
- Hearing Status: Participants must have no reported hearing loss.
- Neurodevelopmental Status: Participants must have no reported neurodevelopmental diagnosis. A reported diagnosis of ADHD/ADD is admissible if participants meet all other inclusionary criteria.
- Technology Access: Participants must have access to a Windows or Apple computer with the ability to join a Zoom session. Additionally, participants must have wired broadband internet connection at home.
- Location: Participants must reside in the United States or Canada.
- Orthodontic Appliances: Participants must have no orthodontic retainers or appliances that would prevent them from touching the roof of their mouth with their tongue.
- Prescreener Recordings: Participants must accurately produce at least 3 items on the /s/ prescreener probe list. Additionally, participants must accurately produce no more than 36 items on the /s/ prescreener probe list.
- Dynamic Assessment Probes: Participants must accurately produce at least 5 out of 45 /s/ syllables correctly and must accurately produce no more than 60% of 75 /s/ words correctly. Additionally, participants must produce at least 75% of /s/ errors as dental or lateral distortion errors.
- Oral Mechanism Examination: Participants must demonstrate adequate range of motion of the tongue during a brief oral mechanism examination.
- Goldman Fristoe Test of Articulation - 3rd Edition (GFTA-3): Participants must score below the 7th percentile on the GFTA-3 and must not demonstrate errors on more than two sounds other than /s/ and /z/ on the GFTA-3.
- Test of Integrated Language and Literacy Skills (TILLS): Must receive a scaled score of at least 5 on the Listening Comprehension and Story Retelling subtests of the Test of Integrated Language and Literacy Skills (TILLS).
- Linguisystems Articulation Test (LAT) Inconsistency Screener: Participants must produce less than three inconsistencies on the LAT Inconsistency Screener.
- Syllable Repetition Task (SRT): Participants must produce less than four additions on the SRT.
- Recording: Consent/assent to recording of assessment and treatment sessions.
- General consent/assent: Consent/assent provided for study procedures.
Exclusion
- 1\. Age: Participants less than 7;0 or greater than 11;11. 2. /s/ Errors: Participants who do not experience difficulty on /s/. 3. English Language Status: Participants who do not speak English as a dominant language and/or who began learning English prior to age 3 4. Hearing Status: Participants who have reported hearing loss, per parent report.
- 5\. Neurodevelopmental Status: Participants who have a reported neurodevelopmental diagnosis. A reported diagnosis of ADHD/ADD is admissible if participants meet all other inclusionary criteria.
- 6\. Technology Access: Participants who do not have access to a Windows or Apple computer with the ability to join a Zoom session. Additionally, participants who do not have wired broadband internet connection at home.
- 7\. Location: Participants who do not reside in the United States or Canada. 8. Orthodontic Appliances: Participants who have orthodontic retainers or appliances that would prevent them from touching the roof of their mouth with their tongue.
- 9\. Prescreener Recordings: Participants who accurately produce less than 3 items on the /s/ prescreener probe list. Additionally, participants who accurately produce more than 36 items on the /s/ prescreener probe list.
- 10\. Dynamic Assessment Probes: Participants who accurately produce less than 5 out of 45 /s/ syllables correctly and/or who accurately produce more than 60% of 75 /s/ words correctly. Additionally, participants who produce less than 75% of /s/ errors as dental or lateral distortion errors.
- 11\. Oral Mechanism Examination: Participants who do not demonstrate adequate range of motion of the tongue during a brief oral mechanism examination.
- 12\. Goldman Fristoe Test of Articulation - 3rd Edition (GFTA-3): Participants who score above the 7th percentile on the GFTA-3 and/or who demonstrate errors on more than two sounds other than /s/ and /z/ on the GFTA-3.
- 13\. Test of Integrated Language and Literacy Skills (TILLS): Participants who receive a scaled score below 5 on the Listening Comprehension and Story Retelling subtests.
- 14\. Linguisystems Articulation Test (LAT) Inconsistency Screener: Participants who produce greater than three inconsistencies on the LAT Inconsistency Screener.
- 15\. Syllable Repetition Task (SRT): Participants who produce greater than four additions on the SRT.
- 16\. Recording: No consent/assent provided to recording of assessment and treatment sessions.
- 17\. General consent/assent: No consent/assent provided for study procedures.
Key Trial Info
Start Date :
June 9 2025
Trial Type :
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation :
ESTIMATED
End Date :
January 1 2027
Estimated Enrollment :
24 Patients enrolled
Trial Details
Trial ID
NCT07214480
Start Date
June 9 2025
End Date
January 1 2027
Last Update
October 9 2025
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Syracuse University
Syracuse, New York, United States, 13244