Late talker. Expressive language disorder
Conditions
Interventions
Persian-speaking late-talking toddlers aged 18 to 36 months.
Sponsors
Semnan University of Medical Sciences
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
All
Age
18 Months to 36 Months
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: Having a delay in the development of expressive language Between the ages of 18 and 36 months Being monolingual in Persian Not having non-verbal cognitive problems Not having hearing and vision defects and emotional behavioral problems (psychiatry) Not having oral-motor defects (structural and functional) The mean length of the child's utterances is between 1 and 3.5 Have at least 10 expressive words Having the ability to imitate words
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria: The unwillingness of the family to cooperate or to carry out further evaluations during the stages of longitudinal examination of the child The patient should use other speech therapy services at the same time as the research The child suffering from convulsions or diseases during the study that lead to vision, hearing, neuro-motor or permanent structural problems.
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Expression of trained words with each of the treatment methods. Timepoint: At the beginning of all three stages of the study (baseline, intervention, withdrawal), at the beginning of each session, the ability of the child with late speech to express therapeutic words is measured for each method. Method of measurement: Name the object or image of each word. | — |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Expression of untrained words. Timepoint: At the beginning of the baseline phase and once every 3 sessions in the intervention phase and in the withdrawal phase. Method of measurement: Name the object or image of each word. | — |
Countries
Iran (Islamic Republic of)
Contacts
Public ContactZakiyeh Nakhaei fuzi
Semnan University of Medical Sciences
Outcome results
None listed