Developmental Language Disorders, Language Delay
Conditions
Keywords
Language delay, Speech and language disorders, Early language intervention, Parent-based language intervention
Brief summary
The purpose of the study is to examine the effectiveness of a highly-structured parent-based language intervention group program for two-year-old children with language delay.
Detailed description
Language delay in toddlers is a prevalent problem for pediatric practitioners. As there are no clear guidelines to deal with this problem, in German speaking countries the wait-and-seeapproach is widely chosen, although longitudinal studies have found that children with language delay are at risc for cognitive, behavioral and social-emotional problems. During the last few years various forms of early language intervention have been increasingly implemented in German speaking countries. However, they have not been evaluated. Early parent-based intervention could be an economical way in prevention speech and language disorders.
Interventions
OTHERHeidelberg Parent-based Language Intervention HPLI
The HPLI is a group program for parents of young children with language delay. This 12-14week program includes seven two-our sessions and one three-our session six months later. It is designed for 5 to 10 people and based of an interactive model of language intervention, wich presumes that optimized parental input will provide better language-learning opportunities.
Sponsors
Heidelberg University
Study design
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Intervention model
PARALLEL
Primary purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
SINGLE (Investigator)
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
24 Months to 27 Months
Healthy volunteers
No
Inclusion criteria
* Children with receptive and/or expressive language abilities below norm range measured by the standardized and norm-referenced German developmental language test SETK-2 (Grimm, 2000)
Exclusion criteria
* Children with visual impairments, genetic syndromes, metabolic diseases * Children with previous language intervention
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Receptive and expressive language abilities using standardized instruments (SETK-2, SETK 3-5, AWST, HVS, HASE, HSET) | at 2; 6, 3, 4, 5 and 8 years of age |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Parent-report screening questionnaire ELFRA-2 (adoption of the MacArthur Communicative Development Inventories-CDI); cognitive and social-emotional development assessed by standardized instruments, | at 2;6, 3, 4, 5 and 8 years of age |
Countries
Germany
Outcome results
None listed