Developmental Language Disorders
Conditions
Keywords
Child Language, Language Therapy, Vocabulary
Brief summary
The purpose of this study is to compare the performances of normally developing children and children with Language Impairment (LI) in three different experimental settings designed to promote vocabulary acquisition. This comparison will also provide evidence to support different intervention approaches designed to increase vocabulary abilities, which has been proved to be one of the major deficits of young children with LI.
Interventions
BEHAVIORALWord-learning
Exposure to five nonwords for three sessions of controlled interaction with the experimenter
Sponsors
University of Sao Paulo
Study design
Allocation
NON_RANDOMIZED
Intervention model
PARALLEL
Primary purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
36 Months to 47 Months
Healthy volunteers
Yes
Inclusion criteria
* For GP subjects: - diagnosis of Language Impairment * enrolled in language therapy * age between 3:0 (years:months) and 3:11 * For GC subjects: - normal performance in a language screening procedure * normal performance in an expressive vocabulary test
Exclusion criteria
* For GP subjects: - hearing impairments * diagnosed neurological or behavioral conditions * major cognitive impairment * For GC subjects: - communication complaints from caregivers * history of previous enrollment in language therapy
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Performance on a post-test administered after every word-learning session. | Three weeks |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Occurence of correct spontaneous productions of the taught words during the experimental procedure | Three weeks |
Countries
Brazil
Outcome results
None listed