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NCT06085300
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The Relationship Between Child Language Proficiency and Language of Treatment on the Outcomes of Bilingual Children with Developmental Language Disorder

Sponsor: University of Houston

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Summary

Of the 12 million children in the USA growing up bilingual, about 1 million experience Developmental Language Disorder (DLD), a disorder in language learning and use. Currently there is no guidance for speech language pathologists (SLPs) as to the language of intervention for bilingual children with DLD with differing degrees of proficiency with English or Spanish. This project will examine the relationship between relative language proficiency and the language of intervention, considering monolingual intervention in English and Spanish and bilingual intervention presented by alternating English and Spanish treatment sessions with the goal of improving language outcomes and thereby strengthening long-term academic achievement.

Key Details

Gender

All

Age Range

4 Years - 6 Years

Study Type

INTERVENTIONAL

Enrollment

120

Start Date

2023-08-08

Completion Date

2028-05-01

Last Updated

2025-01-14

Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Sentence recast

Recast therapy is a well-established treatment for grammar in children with DLD. In this treatment, the adult repeats the child's own utterance, altering it to include the taught structure. It yields consistent large effect sizes (Hedge's g = 0.7-1.0) when focused on a single target and provided at a high dose (10-20 hrs. of therapy at a rate of \~1 recast/minute or \~600-1000 recasts total) for both morphology and syntax .

Locations (1)

School Districst

Houston, Texas, United States