Oral Language in Children With Down Syndrome

Oral Language in Children With Down Syndrome: Lexical, Syntactic and Semantic Aspects

Status

UNKNOWN

Phases

Unknown

Study type

Observational

Source

ClinicalTrials.gov

Registry ID

NCT00952354

Enrollment

Registered

2009-08-06

Start date

2007-08-31

Completion date

2009-08-31

Last updated

2009-08-06

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Conditions

Down Syndrome

Keywords

Down syndrome, MLU, language development, language assessment

Brief summary

The objective of this research is to verify the language of children with Down syndrome concerning lexical, syntactic and semantic aspects using MLU. The hypothesis is that children with Down syndrome will present low performance, regarding not only the quantitative measures as MLU-m, MLU-w, GM-1 and GM-2, but also regarding the qualitative aspects of their production, when compared to children with typical development.

Detailed description

One of the alternatives to observe and assess language development and language disorders is to analyze spontaneous language samples, which allos the identification of qualitative and quantitative aspects. The analysis involves the MLU-morphemes, MLU-words and words classes. All words produced are analyzed, including interjections, adverbs and adjectives.Word classes with grammatical characteristics present lower averages, as prepositions and conjunctions. Reference parameters are the ones of the spoken language. The objective assessment with qualitative and quantitative data may help the speech and language pathologist/therapist to determine therapeutic guidelines to each patient.

Interventions

None listed

Study design

Observational model

COHORT

Time perspective

CROSS_SECTIONAL

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

ALL

Age

3 Years to 10 Years

Healthy volunteers

Yes

Inclusion criteria

* genetic diagnosis of Down syndrome * good health conditions * normal results on audiologic evaluation * pediatric and ear, nose and throat periodic check ups. * attend speech-language therapy at the Speech Language Pathology Laboratory in Syndromes and Sensorimotor Deficits (SLPL-SSD) of the School of Medicine of the University of São Paulo.

Exclusion criteria

* submission to long term hospitalizations due to heart diseases and major respiratory airway infections, that may interfere in the child's global development * presence of visual or auditory important deficits

Countries

Brazil

Outcome results