Stuttering, Stuttering, Childhood
Conditions
Keywords
Rhythm, Temporal processing, Healthy children, Speech disorders, Timing
Brief summary
The specific purpose of this clinical trial is to compare performance on rhythm perception and production tasks between children who stutter and children who do not stutter. The overall project also aims to investigate how performance on rhythm tasks may be related to brain activity (non-clinical trial).
Detailed description
Participants in the clinical trial portion of this study will complete rhythm discrimination and finger tapping experiments once a year for 3 years. The study team will compare performance between groups. Participants will also participate in the non-trial portion of the project that includes having magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) each year for 3 years.
Interventions
BEHAVIORALRhythm discrimination
Participants will complete a rhythm discrimination task once per year for 3 years.
Sponsors
National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD)
University of Michigan
Study design
Allocation
NON_RANDOMIZED
Intervention model
PARALLEL
Primary purpose
BASIC_SCIENCE
Masking
NONE
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
9 Years to 13 Years
Healthy volunteers
Yes
Inclusion criteria
Children who stutter: * English as primary language * Current or past stuttering diagnosis Inclusion Criteria Children who do not stutter: * English as primary language
Exclusion criteria
Children who stutter: * Diagnosed/under treatment for any neurological or psychiatric conditions * Head trauma with loss of consciousness * Major medical illness * Hearing loss- Language/motor delay (below -2 standard deviations on standardized assessments) * Face, motor, or reflex abnormalities
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Rhythm discrimination (d') | Year 1 | Performance on the rhythm discrimination task will be assessed using a signal detection analysis to distinguish between participants' ability to discriminate same and different rhythms from any general tendency to respond same or different. Hit rates (HRs) and false alarm rates (FARs) will be obtained to calculate d' (a measure of sensitivity; determined by z(HR) - z(FAR)). |
Countries
United States
Contacts
Primary ContactSoo-Eun Chang, PhD
Backup ContactEmily Garnett, PhD
Outcome results
None listed