Clinical trials: Child Language
Healthy
MRI Language Studies in Young Children
This study will use magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to investigate language function in children-that is, how language skills such as naming objects, understanding spoken language and reading are organized in the brain.
- Trial name
- NCT00039845
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 180 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS)
EEG
Behavioural and Physiological Measures of Young Students With Dyslexia
The proposed is reading intervention study to track neural changes in the brain. Students with dyslexia will participate in a reading study.
- Trial name
- NCT05376696
- Testing
- Set For Variability, Current Best Practices
- Where
- Canada
- Volunteers
- 30 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- McGill University
Autistic Disorder
Building Social Skills With Interdisciplinary Process Drama in ASD
This is a one group pre-post feasibility study of an interdisciplinary (theatre, Occupational Therapy (OT) and Speech Language Pathology (SLP)) intervention targeted at social skill development in children, aged 3-4.
- Trial name
- NCT03536351
- Testing
- Interdisciplinary process drama
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 15 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Utah
Development Delay, Child Development
Psychological Correlates of Developmental Delays in Preschool Children
The goal of this observational study is to investigate perinatal, cognitive, linguistic and social-emotional correlates of developmental delays of preschool children.
- Conditions
- Development Delay, Child Development, Social Functioning, Speech Delay
- Trial name
- NCT07420829
- Testing
- Psychological assessment
- Where
- Poland
- Volunteers
- 500 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Bartosz M. Radtke
Epilepsy, Seizures
Mapping the Areas of the Brain Associated With Language in Children With Epilepsy
Researchers are interested in studying if magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is practical for locating the areas of the brain associated with language in children with epilepsy.
- Trial name
- NCT00001366
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 230 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS)
Developmental Disability, Developmental Dyslexia
Postural Control, Grip Strength and Body Posture in Children With Intellectual Disability and Dyslexia
This study investigates physical changes in children with Dyslexia and Intellectual Disability. Participants divided into three groups and Body Posture, Postural Control and Hand Grip Strengths was evaluated.
- Conditions
- Developmental Disability, Developmental Dyslexia, Intellectual Disability
- Trial name
- NCT04250701
- Testing
- Body Posture Assessment
- Where
- Turkey (Türkiye)
- Volunteers
- 68 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Ahmet Emir
Speech Sound Disorder, Phonology Disorder
Age-related Correlates of Treatment for Late-acquired Sounds
Late-acquired sounds, such as /r/ are difficult to learn and many children experience persistent errors on these sounds. The purpose of the present study is to determine whether treating these sounds earlier in the child's life…
- Conditions
- Speech Sound Disorder, Phonology Disorder, Phonology Impairment, Phonological Disorder
- Trial name
- ARC (NCT03663972)
- Testing
- articulation therapy, phonologic treatment
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 16 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Wyoming
Autism Spectrum Disorders
Brain Mechanisms for Language Processing in Adolescents With Autism Spectrum Disorder
The main goal of our study is to find out why some people with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) do not develop verbal abilities or remain minimally-verbal throughout adolescence and adulthood.
- Trial name
- BSL (NCT02700074)
- Testing
- No Intervention
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 88 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Boston University Charles River Campus
Stuttering in Adolescence, Bullying of Child
The Classroom Communication Resource (CCR) Intervention to Change Grade 7 Peer's Attitudes Towards Children Who Stutter (CWS)
Children who stutter (CWS) are at high risk of being teased and bullied in primary school because of the negative peer attitudes and perceptions towards stuttering.
- Trial name
- CCR (NCT03111524)
- Testing
- Classroom Communication Resource, No intervention
- Volunteers
- 453 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Rizwana Mallick
Socioemotional Development, Cognitive Ability
Early Institutionalization Intervention Impact Project
The purpose of this study is to determine the effects of early intervention (placement into foster care, and a caregiving training) on physical, cognitive, social and brain development and psychiatric symptomatology in children…
- Conditions
- Socioemotional Development, Cognitive Ability, Behavioral and Neural Patterns of Attention, Brain Function
- Trial name
- EI-3 (NCT04165746)
- Testing
- Foster Care, Caregiving Intervention
- Where
- Brazil
- Volunteers
- 220 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Boston Children's Hospital
Autism
Parent Language Intervention for Autism
Improving social communication outcomes for children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) has important public health implications.
- Trial name
- NCT02632773
- Testing
- Responsive Intervention, Directive Intervention
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 108 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Northwestern University
Developmental Stuttering, Evoked Potentials Auditory
Effect of Stuttering Remediation Exercises on Cortical Auditory Evoked Potentials
studying how the cortical auditory evoked potentials differ in children who stutter from who do not stutter and how these potentials change with therapy
- Trial name
- NCT05473572
- Testing
- Fluency shaping exercises
- Where
- Egypt
- Volunteers
- 34 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Alaa Mamdouh
Language Environments of Children of Low-socioeconomic Status
Thirty Million Words Home Visiting
The TMW intervention aims to foster parental behaviors that facilitate children's language emergence at a critical developmental stage, and thus will be implemented at 13-16 months of age.
- Trial name
- TMW HV RCT (NCT02216032)
- Testing
- TMW Curriculum, Nutrition Curriculum
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 206 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Chicago
Astigmatism Bilateral, Eyeglasses
Spectacle Prescribing in Early Childhood
The purpose of this study is to compare developmental outcome for young children (12 to 35 months of age) with astigmatism meeting American Academy of Ophthalmology spectacle prescribing guidelines and who are prescribed and…
- Trial name
- SPEC (NCT04728451)
- Testing
- Spectacle wear support, Spectacles
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 88 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Arizona
Language Development Disorders
Promoting Early School Readiness in Primary Health Care
This project will measure the degree to which parenting programs based in pediatric primary care can be effective in promoting language development and school readiness in at-risk young children.
- Trial name
- NCT00212576
- Testing
- Video Interaction Project, Building Blocks Project
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 675 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- NYU Langone Health
Autism Spectrum Disorder
Emergence of Generative Language
The purpose of this study is to investigate the effects of several applied behavior teaching procedures on the use of multi-word utterances by children with autism.
- Trial name
- NCT02555241
- Testing
- Mand Training, Matrix, Stimulus Equivalence Training
- Volunteers
- 9 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Emory University
Child Language
Genetic Biomarkers of Child Language Development in Taiwan: an Identification and Validation Study
A study of the relation between genetic biomarkers and child language development in Taiwan.
- Trial name
- NCT05504564
- Testing
- The experiment does not required any intervention
- Where
- Taiwan
- Volunteers
- 300 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Chang Gung Memorial Hospital
Autistic Disorder
Social Skills in Children With ASD and Process Drama
This is a one-group, pre-post feasibility study of an intensive, interdisciplinary (theatre, Occupational Therapy (OT), and Speech Language Pathology (SLP)) intervention targeted at social skill development in children, aged 3-4.
- Trial name
- NCT02850666
- Testing
- Interdisciplinary process drama
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 11 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Utah
Autism Spectrum Disorder
Social Cognitive Development in Young Children With Autism
Through the development of a novel treatment targeting core Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) social deficits and studying the efficacy of this intervention, the investigators hope to provide a means for children with ASD to more…
- Trial name
- NCT01425918
- Testing
- Social Enhancement Intervention, Parent Education
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 61 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Hugo W. Moser Research Institute at Kennedy Krieger, Inc.
Cerebral Palsy, Spastic Dysarthria
Application of Vibration Wave Therapy to the Children Suffering From Cerebral Palsy and Tongue Spastic Dysarthria
Vibration therapy is the widely used in many neurological disorders for different type of problems. Recently, it is being used by researchers for the betterment of motor disorders and muscle movements of the cerebral palsy…
- Trial name
- NCT04222049
- Testing
- Vibro Tactile Gadget
- Where
- Pakistan
- Volunteers
- 12 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- National University of Science and Technology, Pakistan