Speech development in children with Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy

Speech development in children with Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy - Speech development in children with DMD

Status

Active, not recruiting

Phases

Unknown

Study type

Observational

Source

NL-OMON

Registry ID

NL-OMON48330

Enrollment

Registered

2020-05-07

Start date

2020-06-01

Completion date

Unknown

Last updated

2024-04-15

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Conditions

speech deterioration Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy - dystrophinopathy

Interventions

None listed

Eligibility

Age

2 Years to 11 Years

Inclusion criteria

Inclusion criteria: -Mother tongue speaker of Dutch -Between 4 and 12 years old Only for the DMD group: -Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy diagnosis. Only for the healthy control group: -No history of speech problems

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion criteria: -Younger than 4 years of age / older than 11 years of age -Severe swallowing problems -Participants who are not able to follow directions due to severely compromised cognitive abilities. -Participants with severe hearing problems will not do the shadowing task of words and non-words.

Design outcomes

Primary

Measure	Time frame
The main study parameters are tongue movements during the production of speech. Anticipatory coarticulation will be analysed.	—

Secondary

Measure	Time frame
Secondary study parameters include the analysis of syllable duration, syllable periods, and peak intensity as well as formants.	—

Countries

Netherlands

Outcome results